Ian Wickham wrote:
This Trip is Mum and Dad only ..... her school allows you 10 days for holidays per year but you have to write them a letter, telling them that it is the only chance the family have for a holiday together.
Is Megan year six or seven as it gets a lot tuffer in high school I'm lead to believe.
The way I look at it is that I consider it part of her education she has to order her food and drink in French buy things in the shops in French and just immerse her self in the culture.
As you know for our Jan trip we do not go to Brit orientated resorts but seek out the traditional french resorts where she has a chance to see how the communities live.
Megan is year 7 and its a swine now. I am assuming your daughter is year 6 to be allowed 10 days.
When i asked to take Meg to Flaine they just said no. I was shocked as we have never had trouble before but this was a new school.
She went on to add that if we took her out of school next year they are introducing a policy of fining parents. I said "best of luck with that as only the courts and police can issue fines".
The lady then changed her words and decided it was a penalty charge rather than a fine......sounds like those parking scams doesn't it?
I also asked her if i was a day in credit because of the days strike action they took not so long back, I'm not sure she was impressed by that.
Anyway i told them that we were taking her anyway.
And then to top it all only a few days later Megan came home from school with a letter asking if we would like her to participate in a 4 day excursion to Disneyland Paris!! The bloody cheek of it. Funny how they can take her but i can't.