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Parents urged not to book term-time holidays
7:46am Monday 25th February 2008
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As most children return to school today, after the half-term holidays, parents are being reminded not to take their children out of school during term time as they prepare to book their summer holidays.
Schools in Lancashire are taking a tougher line on time away from school.
Every Lesson Counts is urging parents to book breaks that will not impact on their children's education by going away during the school holidays.
Every Lesson Counts is a DCSF campaign to raise awareness of the importance of regular attendance and to help schools, parents and children implement simple working practices to cut out absenteeism.
Lancashire County councillor Vali Patel, cabinet member for schools, said: "Taking holidays during term time can mean that children miss out on important school time and coursework.
"Many parents do not realise the impact it has, especially if their child is doing well.
"We know that missing school can leave children struggling to catch up with their work, sometimes for months afterwards, and in some cases missing out all together.
"A term-time holiday is all too often seen as the rule when it should be the exception.
"School leaders often see parents taking their children out of school for holidays as it's more affordable.
"But if parents book early they can very often achieve similar savings on holidays taken outside of term time, so we would advise families to book now if they haven't already.
"We applaud those families who put their children's education and long-term futures first by adjusting their holiday plans so that their children do not need to take time off school."
If a child misses just one day a week, over the course of their school career they will miss two years of schooling.
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Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
9:06am Mon 25 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
9:24am Mon 25 Feb 08
Mr P, Darwen says...
9:47am Mon 25 Feb 08
Im taking my familly to see them in May as it is not as hot.
I have had to get special permission from the school for my eldest daughter who will keep a diary of her holiday writing up on various Greek culture and including drawings and some numerecy work.
I think as long as she still does a little work each day she wont miss much work for the sake of 2 weeks.
It will do her good to see her grandparents.
Anthony, Accrington says...
9:57am Mon 25 Feb 08
H wrote:Hope you get a prison sentence,as do all the others;single parents who take kids out of school on holiday are RUINING their child's education and are basically irresponsible inadequate"I don't care what my child misses in education terms when I take him on holiday in termtime as it's NOT important"parents!
What the hell are you jibbering on about! how the hell am I encouraging truanting!! He will be with his father seeing different cultures and seeing the world. My son goes to school everday, someone who truants is off school wondering the streets doing god knows what without adult supervision, little scrotes with no respect for adults or authority. I have no doubt in my mind that my sons schooling will not suffer one tiny bit just because I take him out of school for a couple of weeks. you need to get a grip and know what truanting actually means, muppet.
hard worker, darwen says...
10:08am Mon 25 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
10:13am Mon 25 Feb 08
Mick, Bacup says...
10:13am Mon 25 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
10:17am Mon 25 Feb 08
hard worker wrote:And you're a parents rights dogooder who condones this sort of thing as is H! Education is DAMNED IMPORTANT. School skiving,keeping kids at home encouraging it and taking holidays in termtimes ISN'T. Poor education means NO job/no desire to get on in life and a lazy loafer home lounging scrounging and sponging existance on the dole later on in teen years.
Anthony, how uneducated are you saying that single parents are ruining their children's education by taking them out of school during term time. 10 days off is hardly going to ruin anything. Your comments just show how thick you are!
worker, darwen says...
10:17am Mon 25 Feb 08
Mick wrote:young scummy mummy single parents are bad for this society the ones that dont have jobs and claim all they can get
Single parent families are, in general, bad for society
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
10:19am Mon 25 Feb 08
H wrote:No but when I see kids going round the shops on a schoolday with parents and often authorised or unauthorised by the school,when they know their kids should be in school it makes me ANGRY!
Are you a parent anthony?
hard worker, darwen says...
10:22am Mon 25 Feb 08
Anthony wrote:No job no desire to get on in life and a lazy loafer home scrounging and sponging existance - are you giving details of your own life or annoyed you cant have that life???
hard worker wrote: Anthony, how uneducated are you saying that single parents are ruining their children's education by taking them out of school during term time. 10 days off is hardly going to ruin anything. Your comments just show how thick you are!And you're a parents rights dogooder who condones this sort of thing as is H! Education is DAMNED IMPORTANT. School skiving,keeping kids at home encouraging it and taking holidays in termtimes ISN'T. Poor education means NO job/no desire to get on in life and a lazy loafer home lounging scrounging and sponging existance on the dole later on in teen years.
H, Blackburn says...
10:27am Mon 25 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,lancs says...
10:29am Mon 25 Feb 08
hard worker wrote:Er excuse me I have been to school throughout my life NO TERMTIME HOLIDAYS NO SKIVING NO NOTHING AND HAVE A BLOODY JOB,all you parents including YOU who advocate and allow your kids to go on holiday in schooltermtime obviously want your sons and daughters to have a CR*P education by constantly missing 10days of schooling a year,poor qualifications,and a homeliving sponging scrounging lazyloaferhome life on the dole in the teenage years because your kids poor qualifications don't get and lead to a job.
Anthony wrote:No job no desire to get on in life and a lazy loafer home scrounging and sponging existance - are you giving details of your own life or annoyed you cant have that life???hard worker wrote: Anthony, how uneducated are you saying that single parents are ruining their children's education by taking them out of school during term time. 10 days off is hardly going to ruin anything. Your comments just show how thick you are!And you're a parents rights dogooder who condones this sort of thing as is H! Education is DAMNED IMPORTANT. School skiving,keeping kids at home encouraging it and taking holidays in termtimes ISN'T. Poor education means NO job/no desire to get on in life and a lazy loafer home lounging scrounging and sponging existance on the dole later on in teen years.
H, Blackburn says...
10:35am Mon 25 Feb 08
Are you a parent anthony?
No but when I see kids going round the shops on a schoolday with parents and often authorised or unauthorised by the school,when they know their kids should be in school it makes me ANGRY!
Just as I thought Anthony, you have no clue what-so-ever. you try paying the bills, the rent, looking after a child and working 9-5 monday to friday. make comments that you actually know about i.e. drugs, alchohol, the benefits system.....etc.
H, Blackburn says...
10:48am Mon 25 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
10:52am Mon 25 Feb 08
H wrote:That may well be H and other singleparents(that you work 9-5,look after kids and pay the bills)BUT that life DOES NOT give YOU the right whatsoever to regularly interrupt and regularly take the child out of school UNAUTHORISED for holidays/daytrips whatever. You and ALL THE OTHERS WHO DO THIS BY TAKING THE KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL FOR THOSE THINGS RIGHTLY deserve fines prosecution and prison for doing so.
H wrote: Are you a parent anthony? No but when I see kids going round the shops on a schoolday with parents and often authorised or unauthorised by the school,when they know their kids should be in school it makes me ANGRY! Just as I thought Anthony, you have no clue what-so-ever. you try paying the bills, the rent, looking after a child and working 9-5 monday to friday. make comments that you actually know about i.e. drugs, alchohol, the benefits system.....etc.
hollinshead, darwen says...
10:57am Mon 25 Feb 08
mark, Blackburn says...
11:19am Mon 25 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
11:32am Mon 25 Feb 08
mark wrote:Oh yes they are Mark;poor qualifications caused through missed education/schooling taken by frequent 10days or more holidays in schooltermtime=nojob
You really have a bee in your bonnet don't you anthony, bless your cotton socks. just to let you know, i don't feel guilty what-so-ever, and if you would send someone to prison for this 'crime' then your world is a very very sad place to live. The fact of the matter is that lazy lay-about teenagers are not that way because of missing 10 days of school annually, it's their parents and their upbringing that has made them that way. I am very proud of my son and I have no doubt in my mind that he will grow into a fine young man, who will do well at school and get a good job because he will be brought up correctly. Do not tar everyone with the same brush. This subject should be looked at closely, surely not even you can agree that it's right and proper to charge someone an adult fee for a young child??
/alife on the dole and no direction in life. That leads to a lazy lowlife sponging scrounging dole and benefit earning teenager(s)once they leave school,because have poor qualifications/
education.
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
11:41am Mon 25 Feb 08
Mark, Blackburn says...
11:56am Mon 25 Feb 08
John, Accy says...
12:05pm Mon 25 Feb 08
If parents support their children all the way through their school life then if they are taken out of school during term time it will not make any difference to the individuals education.
The lazy lowlife spongers that you talk of didn't care enough to bother with school and if they went to school every day of the week it wouldn't have made a difference.
calella, rossendale says...
1:37pm Mon 25 Feb 08
Beammeup, says...
2:49pm Mon 25 Feb 08
The cost of living is for ever increasing and for those on a tight budget i sympathise and understand.
Why can schools not come to an agreement where kids can miss a couple of weeks term time but give them some extra homework to catch up on that their parent/s can help with?
Scummy kids that play truant often end up in seperate schools with smaller class sizes and one on one tuition in order to catch up. They have fag breaks during lessons and turn up whenever it suits.
This is another example of society pandering to the social underclass that contribute nothing. At the same time parents, single or not who just want a couple of weeks off are treated worse than criminals.
Anthony, Accrington,lancs says...
3:06pm Mon 25 Feb 08
Beammeup wrote:But schools and LEA's are NOT going to come to such an agreement where the kids can be let off for two weeks at their discretion and hand them out extra homework for what they miss. Because of the Government attitude to strive for 100% attendance at school and the plans to prosecute parents who DO take their kids out of school in termtime, then i'm afraid parents will continue to be fined and/or imprisoned for such conduct. Rules are rules and if in the school contract it says you cannot take your kids on holiday in schooltermtime,then it is YOUR FAULT AS THE PARENTS IF YOU ARE PUNISHED/IMPRISONED/
I don't really have a big problem with parents taking their kids on holiday during term time so long as it is for no more than a couple of weeks a year. The cost of living is for ever increasing and for those on a tight budget i sympathise and understand. Why can schools not come to an agreement where kids can miss a couple of weeks term time but give them some extra homework to catch up on that their parent/s can help with? Scummy kids that play truant often end up in seperate schools with smaller class sizes and one on one tuition in order to catch up. They have fag breaks during lessons and turn up whenever it suits. This is another example of society pandering to the social underclass that contribute nothing. At the same time parents, single or not who just want a couple of weeks off are treated worse than criminals.
FINED ETC FOR DOING SO SAD AS IT MAY SEEM. Some schools even remove children from school records etc even if they do so and terminate those children(s) education, this has happened in some manchester schools where parents have taken their children on holiday in termtime.
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
3:15pm Mon 25 Feb 08
harold, preston says...
3:20pm Mon 25 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
4:21pm Mon 25 Feb 08
single parent of 2, Colne says...
6:50pm Mon 25 Feb 08
mark, b urnley says...
8:54pm Mon 25 Feb 08
Smee again, Darwen says...
12:13am Tue 26 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
7:20am Tue 26 Feb 08
H wrote:AND IT'S STUPID INADEQUATE FEEBLE EXCUSE MINDED PARENTS LIKE YOU H WHO FEEL THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BREAK 10 DAYS OF CHILDREN'S EDUCATION TO TAKE THEM ON HOLIDAY AND DON'T FEEL IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO IT!!!!!!
If this is the case anthony that parents are getting sent to prison then so be it, it does not surprise me one bit that this is happening, and jack straw is harping on that our jails are over crowded!! this country is a joke and it\\\'s being run by muppets like you who constantly live in the past. Get a grip!! In the past few months petrol has soared through the roof, gas and electricity prices have rocketed, the cost of living in this country is ridiculous!! No wonder everyone is going abroad to live, we get screwed at every opportunity.
YOU'RE SO THICK! I HOPE YOUR CHILD BECOMES A LOWLIFING LAZY TEENAGE BENEFIT CHAV WHEN HE DOESN'T MANAGE TO GET A JOB BECAUSE HE HAS INADEQUATE QUALIFICATIONS TO GET ONE BY WHICH TIME IT'LL BE FAR TOO LATE!
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
7:25am Tue 26 Feb 08
harold, preston says...
8:10am Tue 26 Feb 08
hard worker, darwen says...
8:11am Tue 26 Feb 08
harold wrote:well said!!!
this is how sad and pathetic anthony is, not only is he losing this argument, not one person has yet to back him with his comments and when he doesnt like a comment that has been posted he reports the quote to get it taken off. that in itself proves he is just one sad individual who likes the sound of his own voice and opinions.
jack, says...
8:15am Tue 26 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
8:43am Tue 26 Feb 08
quoteAND IT'S STUPID INADEQUATE FEEBLE EXCUSE MINDED PARENTS LIKE YOU H WHO FEEL THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BREAK 10 DAYS OF CHILDREN'S EDUCATION TO TAKE THEM ON HOLIDAY AND DON'T FEEL IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO IT!!!!!!
YOU'RE SO THICK! I HOPE YOUR CHILD BECOMES A LOWLIFING LAZY TEENAGE BENEFIT CHAV WHEN HE DOESN'T MANAGE TO GET A JOB BECAUSE HE HAS INADEQUATE QUALIFICATIONS TO GET ONE BY WHICH TIME IT'LL BE FAR TOO LATE!
I've just got into work and looked to see what drivel anthony had wrote since yesterday and I had a good giggle at what i saw, what a muppet this guy is. first of all he whines about the amount of teenage lay-abouts and dole dossers, then he says that he hopes my son will become one!! get a grip and make up your mind you clanker! and sorry to dissapoint but I've had a good up-bringing and so will my son, even though he will miss 10 days education each year he will still be above average, i have no doubt about that. When we go away in june i'll get him to send you a post card!!!! muppet
harold, preston says...
9:14am Tue 26 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
9:34am Tue 26 Feb 08
jack wrote:And people aren't interested in dogooders like you,H,Harold,hardwor
anthony get over it. people arent interested in your sad comments. you just want to overfill the prisons with people who have done nothing wrong so you would be happy to see a murderer let loose on the streets because the prisons are full of parents?? get a grip mate
ker,worker,mark of burnley,mark of blackburn,single mother of two colne,smee,beammeup,
calella,john of accy,and all you silly lawbreaking gets either who think it is alright to break the law and disrupt your education for 10days a year in termtime so you and your poxy kids can have a holiday!
Kayleah, says...
9:40am Tue 26 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
9:45am Tue 26 Feb 08
When I first wrote on here yesterday I did not expect the support that i have received, now i know alot of people have the same opinion as me it makes me more determined to get my point across to the relevent bodies, it probably won't make any difference but they really need to understand that me being a single parent that i simply cannot afford to go away in the school holidays.
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
9:53am Tue 26 Feb 08
H wrote:They're NOT gonna listen to single parents and families who can't afford to go away in school holidays THE LAW IS THE LAW AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT-NOT!!!!!!!!!
I agree totally Harold, he just has totally blinkered vision, and the only people who should be able to remove any comments on here should be from the telegraph and only when someone is being abusive and nasty, not when people are making perfectly valid points. When I first wrote on here yesterday I did not expect the support that i have received, now i know alot of people have the same opinion as me it makes me more determined to get my point across to the relevent bodies, it probably won't make any difference but they really need to understand that me being a single parent that i simply cannot afford to go away in the school holidays.
H, Blackburn says...
10:09am Tue 26 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
10:15am Tue 26 Feb 08
quotThey're NOT gonna listen to single parents and families who can't afford to go away in school holidays THE LAW IS THE LAW AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT-NOT!!!!!!!!!e
That's the point you clown!! it needs changing!! The holiday companies need to change their charges for single parents or the government need to change the 'law' about taking your kids out of school to go away, start listening to what people are saying!! do youo think it's right and proper that a child of 5 should get charged the full adult price for a holiday??? I don't! i think it's a disgrace!!! these companies are greedy money grabbing daylight robbers!!!
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
11:45am Tue 26 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
12:01pm Tue 26 Feb 08
D, Bburn says...
12:26pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Plus my parents always took myself and my brothers away during term time and we all have very good jobs so its done us no harm
harold, preston says...
12:54pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Mariette, Blackburn says...
2:41pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
2:50pm Tue 26 Feb 08
After all the gobbing off you have done I expected more from you!! Oh I am at work too
And Mariette a few days at the sea side or a break in this country costs more usually than it does for a week in Spain or any other foreign holiday. The last holiday I took my kids out of school for was a holiday to Egypt in December and you cant see the pyramids of Giza in Blackpool
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
2:53pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Mariette wrote:Glad someone agrees with me thanks Mariette!
I just have to chime in here. Why do parents feel such a need to go on holiday? Though I can see if the kids don't have concurrent breaks to go see family. If one can't afford a summer holiday abroad, then stay home or go to the seaside. That's what we do, and no one has had a mental breakdown yet! I'm sure there are well-meaning parents who really want to introduce their children to cultural experiences, but monstly what we see in Spain or wherver are Brits on the beach, eating chips. It really is for the best to keep kids in school during term.
Holland, from blackburn says...
3:05pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Holland, from blackburn says...
3:09pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
3:12pm Tue 26 Feb 08
They do impose fines and its still cheaper to pay the £50 fine than to take them in the school holidays.
And this year I will be taking them out again as we are going to America to New York Florida and Georgia
Kayleah, says...
4:07pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Oh and H wherever you go on holiday this year(during school time) I hope you have a good one
H, Blackburn says...
4:09pm Tue 26 Feb 08
R, Blackburn says...
8:17pm Tue 26 Feb 08
After reading earlier comments made, it seems to me parents who take their children out of school for holidays are not appreciating what we have in this country.
I am a parent and have never taken my children out of school for holidays. Children are at school for only 40 weeks in the year which leaves parents with plenty of opportunity to spend time with them. Does it matter where we take them?
Schooling should be seen as an extension to the education parents give their children.
I work in a school so I know the effect absence has on a child's education.
It does matter.
All lessons are delivered on school days. If a child misses just one day those lessons are very difficult to catch up. The children miss out on all class discussions and activities used to assist them with their learning.
As we have free education, why abuse it?
sammy, Lancashire says...
8:41pm Tue 26 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
7:19am Wed 27 Feb 08
R wrote:Education is important;but you try telling the dogooding parents rights lawbreakers on here that take their kids out of school regularly to spend 10 or more days on holiday(they know who they are)like Kayleigh/Harold/H/wo
We are lucky to receive free education for our children in this country and should be grateful for it. After reading earlier comments made, it seems to me parents who take their children out of school for holidays are not appreciating what we have in this country. I am a parent and have never taken my children out of school for holidays. Children are at school for only 40 weeks in the year which leaves parents with plenty of opportunity to spend time with them. Does it matter where we take them? Schooling should be seen as an extension to the education parents give their children. I work in a school so I know the effect absence has on a child's education. It does matter. All lessons are delivered on school days. If a child misses just one day those lessons are very difficult to catch up. The children miss out on all class discussions and activities used to assist them with their learning. As we have free education, why abuse it?
rker/hardworker/D/Ha
rold/Smee/Jack/John/
Mark/Single Parent of 2/Beammeup/calella/M
r P etc. They think the law doesn't and shouldn't apply to them(and that they have the right to disrupt their children's education or more days a year and not be prosecuted/imprisone
d/fined by the law of the land/the LEA's/the schools and other bodies on their return or removed from the schools they attend by wiping those kids from their records and terminating their education at those school(s)). I've been trying to say ALL ALONG that missed education makes it very difficult to catchup on coursework/lessons etc but these dogooding idiots of parents don't want to believe that or care about and think 10 days or more missed from school is not going to make a difference to it. Missed lessons/missed coursework/late or discontined or missing assignments/essays etc CAN HAVE BIG EFFECTS on the final qualifications and exams and the final results gained and poor results/ qualifications mean poor jobs or indeed not getting any job/training or further education or getting into the job/career you want,turning into lazy teens who sit at home with mum and dad watching daytime tv supping their coffee and smoking their fags and earning benefit without a job/further education or training ie the NEETS syndrome. These parents ARE ruining their children's futures but they DON'T see that NOR want to know that NOR do they care. They obviously want their kids to do badly in life and have a lazy loafing sponging scrounging existance lifestyle and atiitude to everything when they get older.
Kayleah, says...
10:12am Wed 27 Feb 08
I AM TELLING OVER YOU
Anthony, Accrington,lancs says...
10:13am Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah wrote:Yeah and i've got several comments of yours removed makes two of us LOL!
This just confirms my 13 year old boy theory I AM TELLING OVER YOU
Anthony, Accrington,lancs says...
10:15am Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah wrote:And I got H's remarks removed too LOL!
This just confirms my 13 year old boy theory I AM TELLING OVER YOU
Kayleah, says...
10:16am Wed 27 Feb 08
You must be a very lonely man.
I didnt report any posts I am big enough to stand up for myself and I dont feel the need to tell over people.
H, Blackburn says...
10:18am Wed 27 Feb 08
Just to put things in perspective anthony, since the school year started my son has'nt had a single day off school, i know other kids in his class that have had more than two weeks off due to sickness, obviously not their fault but i doubt they will end up on the dole because of it, you really need to look at the bigger picture. and by the way your name calling has no affect on us atall it just shows people reading these comments that you're not to be taken seriously, think on.
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
10:19am Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah wrote:Lonely no friends don't think so! I've plenty of friends at home in Accrington and all over lancs so you're WRONG AGAIN Kayleah 0 Me 10 I win again so go and suck eggs and take a jump!
Truth hurts?? You must be a very lonely man. I didnt report any posts I am big enough to stand up for myself and I dont feel the need to tell over people.
Kayleah, says...
10:21am Wed 27 Feb 08
I am fine thanks H just busy at work we cant all be dole dossers as if I was I would never get any holidays at all never mind in term time!!
D, Bburn says...
10:29am Wed 27 Feb 08
Anthony wrote:I think we all need to ignore what this person keeps saying hes already said hes not a parent so i feel he cant comment on something he knows nothing about we all know we aint scum on benefits so end of
R wrote: We are lucky to receive free education for our children in this country and should be grateful for it. After reading earlier comments made, it seems to me parents who take their children out of school for holidays are not appreciating what we have in this country. I am a parent and have never taken my children out of school for holidays. Children are at school for only 40 weeks in the year which leaves parents with plenty of opportunity to spend time with them. Does it matter where we take them? Schooling should be seen as an extension to the education parents give their children. I work in a school so I know the effect absence has on a child's education. It does matter. All lessons are delivered on school days. If a child misses just one day those lessons are very difficult to catch up. The children miss out on all class discussions and activities used to assist them with their learning. As we have free education, why abuse it?Education is important;but you try telling the dogooding parents rights lawbreakers on here that take their kids out of school regularly to spend 10 or more days on holiday(they know who they are)like Kayleigh/Harold/H/wo rker/hardworker/D/Ha rold/Smee/Jack/John/ Mark/Single Parent of 2/Beammeup/calella/M r P etc. They think the law doesn't and shouldn't apply to them(and that they have the right to disrupt their children's education or more days a year and not be prosecuted/imprisone d/fined by the law of the land/the LEA's/the schools and other bodies on their return or removed from the schools they attend by wiping those kids from their records and terminating their education at those school(s)). I've been trying to say ALL ALONG that missed education makes it very difficult to catchup on coursework/lessons etc but these dogooding idiots of parents don't want to believe that or care about and think 10 days or more missed from school is not going to make a difference to it. Missed lessons/missed coursework/late or discontined or missing assignments/essays etc CAN HAVE BIG EFFECTS on the final qualifications and exams and the final results gained and poor results/ qualifications mean poor jobs or indeed not getting any job/training or further education or getting into the job/career you want,turning into lazy teens who sit at home with mum and dad watching daytime tv supping their coffee and smoking their fags and earning benefit without a job/further education or training ie the NEETS syndrome. These parents ARE ruining their children's futures but they DON'T see that NOR want to know that NOR do they care. They obviously want their kids to do badly in life and have a lazy loafing sponging scrounging existance lifestyle and atiitude to everything when they get older.
my name got mentioned Maybe i should fine my school from when i was younger for cutting back my education but then again i got my gcses and a good job so obviously we aint as bad as said,
Plus why should it bother him they aint his kids and he wont be the one being fined etc
H, Blackburn says...
10:45am Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
10:48am Wed 27 Feb 08
Got 2 girls one is 7 and the other is 5.
How many have you got?
H, Blackburn says...
10:58am Wed 27 Feb 08
My boy is 5 in a couple of weeks, i just have the one, are you a single parent?
Kayleah, says...
11:01am Wed 27 Feb 08
What bout you?
H, Blackburn says...
11:08am Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
11:13am Wed 27 Feb 08
Plus sometimes its better double holidays double presents for x-mas and birthdays
H, Blackburn says...
11:43am Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
11:50am Wed 27 Feb 08
I am taking my kids out for 3 weeks this year to go to Australia and then we will probably go to Lapland again so wow nearly 4 weeks off I better buy them a dunce cap each!!
H, Blackburn says...
11:57am Wed 27 Feb 08
what do you do Kayleah? i'm just off for my dinner, chat soon xx
Kayleah, says...
12:05pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Yea I was 18 when I got married I think I am one of the only people nowadays who got married young to stay together. Not easy when your only young as you always think your right.
Yea Lapland was amazing but the only problem was my youngest was soooo scared of Father Christmas but she soon came round after a day or so
Vicky, Blackburn says...
1:08pm Wed 27 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
1:16pm Wed 27 Feb 08
he has been slating people like me and Kaleah saying we are the scum of the earth, yet we are both successful people with our kids best interests at heart and would not do anything to jeapordise their education, i really believe all this has been blown out of proportion. I would just like to add something too, I was born in south africa, where children don't start school until they are 6 years old and don't leave until they are 18, i however moved to the UK when i was 6, i attended school for only a few months before coming here, so i missed a whole 2 years of education!! but i'm sat here with a good job and a very comfortable life style. like i have said all along, it's how a child is brought up by their parents, my boy will not be affected by me taking him out of school for 10days a year one tiny little bit and he most certainly will not end up on the dole or be a chav!!
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
1:55pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,lancs says...
2:07pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
2:20pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Vicky, Blackburn says...
2:36pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
2:40pm Wed 27 Feb 08
I have been married for nearly 10 years 2 daughters and a well paid job as a finance manager. I live in a 3 bed bungalow I drive an MG and my hubby drives a Mazda
Thats both perspectives from people who did well at school and someone who didnt
Life is what you make it to be as me and Vicky have both proved missing a bit of school did no harm
Vicky, Blackburn says...
2:41pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Anthony, Accrington,Lancs says...
2:53pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
2:56pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Vicky, Blackburn says...
3:00pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
3:11pm Wed 27 Feb 08
I dont feel like leaving this subject alone just quite yet its entertaining
Vicky, Blackburn says...
3:32pm Wed 27 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
3:35pm Wed 27 Feb 08
and congrats vicky, hope you have a wonderful wedding and a even better honeymoon. I want to get my little'un into a hobby like your daughter, he likes football but his real passion is cars but i would like him to do something that he can do every week, that he can enjoy and pursue as he gets older, any suggestions girls?
Kayleah, says...
3:42pm Wed 27 Feb 08
He also does kick boxing and he loves that got quite a few belts already.
My youngest daughter does Ballet and my oldest does street dancing ( watching her body pop is hillarius) and they both go to horse riding
Vicky, Blackburn says...
3:46pm Wed 27 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
4:12pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Vicky, Blackburn! says...
4:16pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
4:18pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
4:20pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Tony you GRASS
H, blackburn says...
4:22pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Vicky, Blackburn says...
4:23pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
4:24pm Wed 27 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
4:46pm Wed 27 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
9:33am Thu 28 Feb 08
That was posted at 7am someone needs a life or something along them lines
Good morning H
Kayleah, says...
9:35am Thu 28 Feb 08
H, Blackburn says...
9:46am Thu 28 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
10:05am Thu 28 Feb 08
Yea we do need some entertainment.
What do you do?
H, Blackburn says...
10:18am Thu 28 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
10:40am Thu 28 Feb 08
I know the housing market it terrible I was lucky I bought just at the right time. We wanted to move not that long ago and the prices are just pathetic so we decided to stay where we are
H, Blackburn says...
11:11am Thu 28 Feb 08
yeah that's the thing now is'nt it, you could sell up and move but it's finding somewhere else, the amount agents are putting on houses is incredible. You're right to stay put for the time being.
I could buy somewhere at a push right now, but it would swallow up everything I have saved and then I would be paying alot more than the rent i'm paying at the minute, so i would rather keep renting at the moment and use the money i'm saving to enjoy life, take my little'un out on a weekend and go on holidays etc, when i'm comfortable which hopefully won't be long and if the housing crisis ever stops then i'll think about getting on the ladder.
Kayleah, says...
11:30am Thu 28 Feb 08
Kayleah, says...
11:52am Thu 28 Feb 08
Maybe speak tomorrow if Vicky comes by say Hi for me
H, Blackburn says...
11:56am Thu 28 Feb 08
anthony has gone quiet, maybe he's on the look out for Vicky coming up his street!! curtain twitching!
H, Blackburn says...
11:59am Thu 28 Feb 08
Mr A, says...
5:50pm Mon 3 Mar 08
It certainly made no difference to me - I'm at university and had a First in last semester's exams.
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8:51am Mon 25 Feb 08