i do think that a childs education is more important than anything else however i do think a weeks holiday now and then is acceptable as long as it wasn't all the time. i was taken out of school on occasions for a holiday and i still managed to get good grades at university. i now have children of my own and wouldn't think twice about taking them out for a break now and then. as someone else put i know my children well enough to know they have the capacity to catch up and i would enforce they took work with them to do whilst away