Hhmmm, none of us need to.take kids out of school.
As an example I looked to go away with my two grandkids and wife. Go May Bank holiday school holiday week, £700 per person, go the week after £400 per person.
The travel companies know when the majority of schools run their holidays!
Extending...
You seem to all be ignoring the fact that children go to "work" in a hotbed of bugs and viruses... Many of the illnesses that time is taken off for is for child illnesses, illnesses that generally don't often affect adults.
For instance I have never heard of one adult that I have worked with...