Bulgaria Ski discussion board

I may not be popular with a lot of you on here for this post but...... I have to comment about taking your children out of school early to save money on holidays. I am preparing to go skiing during half term with my wife and two children.
It does astound me that parents choose to remove their children from school even during exam periods. In my own children’s school a family have gone skiing for two weeks to Italy and their son is in his exam year!!
My wife is Bulgarian and she has to sacrifice travelling back home with the children for her family holidays it’s all part of having children.
I am all for the fines and particularly referring the families to the education welfare officer for taking children out of school (article below). Now that the legality of fining parents for taking their children out of school or fictitious illness has been tested, many local authorities will start to use this tool to keep children in their class where they should be, also its not a bad way of raising funds.

People will post that they have a first from a red brick college and were always taken out of school – well kudos to you - but there are many thousands of children who are being harmed by their parents belligerence and focus on money. I post after listening to this article on the radio-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8496345.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8496345.stm

Regards
P