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I know that. Don't be patronising. Get rid of your signature, it's very annoying.

It's not always holidays. I know of someone who had a parent dying but lived some way away. They needed to be with that parent, but had no child cover, so took their children with them for the death and funeral. They were fined.

The government using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, yet again.

Norovirus hadn't been discovered when my kids were little. We called it gastro enteritis.

I accept your apology. Those sort of bugs are more infectious before the symptoms show. Children do recover quickly, and can be fine the next day without being infectious. I do accept that parents have to work nowadays and school is sometimes used as a child minding service rather than an...

Thank you for insinuating that I didn't care about my kids. Read my post again and see where I said children can be sick in the morning and then be fine in the afternoon. That doesn't mean they have a highly infectious disease. Or are you medically qualified too?

In the war there was such a shortage of teachers, that children only went to school part time. Some in the morning and some in the afternoon. This 'uneducated generation' managed to rebuild this country despite their lack of school time.

Wow. I wonder how I managed to have two children, and three grandchildren without knowing about bugs and childhood diseases.

This And this.

If a child vomits, they can be better the same day, but schools have a policy whereby they have to stay away for 48 hours, even when they are obviously well again.

It isn't the cost of holidays as we've never gone on a package holiday. It's when parents can get time off of work.

Yes, my Dad served for 33 years. Obviously schools and councils need to clamp down on truancy, but it's not just middle class parents who have holidays as some posters are trying to make out.

I agree. We used to take holidays in term time as parents couldn't always have holidays in August etc. The magistrates had already thrown it out of court with no case to answer, and the IOW council thought they would waste tax payers money fighting it in the High Court.