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It's based on your assumption that unauthorised absences are not a problem in state schools, and that all families are taking their kids on educational enriching holidays. As with any set of rules, the majority of sensible, law abiding people are not the problem or who the rules are set for...

Yes, spoken like someone who gives up precious free time for free to help their local school - and you choose to use that against me. I guess that sums the discussion up.

The whole story should have been chase the form up with the school office several times, book an appointment with the head if necessary. Form tutor can give their opinion that they don't mind but clearly the school's decision. In terms of priorities, let's be fair low on a heads list of things...

You lied to the school. What did you expect? You actually applied for the holiday, got denied, then instead of just accepting the unauthorised absence, you phoned in to say she was sick. What are the school supposed to do?

So the struggle for schools is getting all kids into school. Pleading with parents that just cannot be bothered to bring their kid in every day as to the importance of their child's education. Sickness will be one part of your 75%, simply not turning up will be a significant portion also. So you...

The most vulnerable kids in society are inextricably linked to poor attendance. Poor performance in school is also linked with attendance and financial background. Schools put a huge amount into trying to ensure kids are in school, through monitoring, liaising with parents and thereafter other...

For someone requesting the government should butt out of people's lives - I was assuming you were a bit more informed than just your experience with your own child?

13 weeks holiday would suggest no one is denying a child that. Good parenting is unfortunately not something that stretches across the entire cohort in a school. Attendance is a major battle that schools face in just making sure kids are in school. The number of kids that just aren't attending...

Its not about the kid having the time off, it is the general disruption to the class if multiple kids have days off. Moshe Jnr was probably fine because the teacher had to spend time ensuring they caught up on what they missed. Someone else missed out on that teaching time. Multiply that by a...

Don't apologise to me, I'm just a school governor, you've obviously a far greater in-depth knowledge than the opinion of teachers, ex-teachers, statistical surveys and the like.

Or people don't like their stereotype shown to be flawed?

Well, clearly the basis of your argument is from a couple of people you know who are teachers. You're hardly in a position to question the validity of a professionally prepared set of statistics.

Statistics show a primary school teacher does 59.3 hours per week on average, a secondary school teacher 55.7 hours per week.

Of course they can. State education is paid for by general taxation paid by the population and businesses whether they use the education system or not, making education free at the point of delivery. Just because I've paid tax, doesn't mean my children's state education isn't paid for by others...

As said before, it is not the disruption to an individual child that is the main issue, it is the teacher's time in bringing each child that has been away up to speed with the rest of the class for the week or 2 weeks they've missed. If that turns into several children at different times, then...

This is the key point, it is not necessarily the disruption to the individual pupil, but each time a pupil is away, they've missed part of the curriculum that the teacher will need to spend time catching them up on. If they have to do that repeatedly, then the whole class is being impacted by...

Construction work is hardly a whim. Inset days are not part of the academic year they are 5 days additional days that teachers have for CPD and training, often addressing key points from the School Development Plan.