Term time school holidays

[Chekhov]

5 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

You really are getting desperate now 

And why is that ?

I have spoken to a few other parents about this and they all think it is little short of scandalous.

Let's remind ourselves of the facts :

 

"We did shut the schools for 30 weeks because we don't think education is important enough to keep them open (despite the fact kids were at no risk from Covid), but now we are going to fine you if you take your child out for one week."

 

I am surprised you cannot see that is stinking hypocrisy.

Edited June 14, 2022 by Chekhov

[L00b]

1 minute ago, Chekhov said:

And why is that ?

I have spoken to a few other parents about this and they all think it is little short of scandalous.

Let's remind ourselves of the facts :

 

"We did shut the schools for 30 weeks because we don't think education is important enough to keep them open (despite the fact kids were at no risk from Covid), but now we are going to fine you if you take your child out for one week."

 

I am surprised you cannot see that is stinking hypocrisy.

Where is that quote from, please?
 

Just checking that it is the ‘fact’ that you allege it is.  Because without source/attribution, it looks awfully like opinion dressed as a fake quote, misrepresented as a ‘fact’.

[Chekhov]

1 hour ago, L00b said:

Where is that quote from, please?

Just checking that it is the ‘fact’ that you allege it is.  Because without source/attribution, it looks awfully like opinion dressed as a fake quote, misrepresented as a ‘fact’.

Hold on, are you saying they didn't shut the schools for 30 weeks ?

Where were you between March 2020 and March 2021 ?

 

Just to cover all bases, if you don't believe the fact that the schools were shut for about 7 months, read this....... :

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_education_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

Or are you saying you don't believe kids were at pretty much no risk from Covid ? Well we knew that in March 2020 :

 

Edited June 14, 2022 by Chekhov

[Zinger549]

1 hour ago, hackey lad said:

You really are getting desperate now 

He's so far down the rabbit hole he can't stop.

[hackey lad]

Covid , Covid , Covid on and on and on and 

[Chekhov]

1 hour ago, RJRB said:

Perhaps it is more important that children attend school in term time to help in catching up on the schooling that they missed.

You cannot change what happened over the last 2+ years but you can address the issues arising.

Peak holiday costs have always been an issue but I can see why sanctions should apply to parents who take their kids out of school.

Not for one poxy week. But they cannot have it both ways anyway, either it is exceptionally important that a child is at school for every single week (so important they are going to fine the parents for it), or it isn't.

And if it is the former then how come they kept them off school for THIRTY weeks.

 

We were just discussing this farce at work and, rather amusingly, one of my work colleagues said "if they fine anyone tell them to take it out of the tax rebate they should have got when they were paying for their kids to be educated and they weren't being".... That's the best kind of humour, it has more than a ring of truth !

 

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5 minutes ago, Zinger549 said:

He's so far down the rabbit hole he can't stop.

I can assure you it isn't just me. In fact I'll bet you there are millions of parents who think this is stinking hypocrisy of the highest order.

Edited June 14, 2022 by Chekhov

[alchresearch]

2 hours ago, Chekhov said:

We all know that the government were quite happy for school kids to miss about 7 months of school during the pandemic (despite the fact kids were never at any significant risk from Covid......)

Kids didn't "miss 7 months of school".

 

School buildings may have been closed, but teaching continued remotely.

 

And kids may not have directly been at risk from covid, they were certainly strong contenders at passing it on.

[Zinger549]

12 minutes ago, Chekhov said:

Not for one poxy week. But they cannot have it both ways anyway, either it is exceptionally important that a child is at school for every single week (so important they are going to fine the parents for it), or it isn't.

And if it is the former then how come they kept them off school for THIRTY weeks.

 

We were just discussing this farce at work and, rather amusingly, one of my work colleagues said "if they fine anyone tell them to take it out of the tax rebate they should have got when they were paying for their kids to be educated and they weren't being".... That's the best kind of humour, it has more than a ring of truth !

 

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I can assure you it isn't just me. In fact I'll bet you there are millions of parents who think this is stinking hypocrisy of the highest order.

All you talk about is Covid.  Others are trying to move on from it but you can't seem to.

[L00b]

18 minutes ago, Chekhov said:

Hold on, are you saying they didn't shut the schools for 30 weeks ?

Where were you between March 2020 and March 2021 ?

 

Just to cover all bases, if you don't believe the fact that the schools were shut for about 7 months, read this....... :

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_education_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

Or are you saying you don't believe kids were at pretty much no risk from Covid ? Well we knew that in March 2020 :

 

Oh no, the government certainly closed the schools, for 30 weeks <or however long>.

That *is* a fact.

 

Likewise the well-documented deaths and still-better-documented Long Covid after-effects of infected children, all statistically-irrelevant as your “death rates” graph may hold those to be (PS: I’m not going to engage you afresh on Covid, so don’t bother).

 

I’m asking you for the source of that quote,  *all of which* you claimed to be ‘facts’:

 

"We did shut the schools for 30 weeks because we don't think education is important enough to keep them open (despite the fact kids were at no risk from Covid), but now we are going to fine you if you take your child out for one week."
 

 

 

[hackey lad]

19 minutes ago, Chekhov said:

Not for one poxy week. But they cannot have it both ways anyway, either it is exceptionally important that a child is at school for every single week (so important they are going to fine the parents for it), or it isn't.

And if it is the former then how come they kept them off school for THIRTY weeks.

 

We were just discussing this farce at work and, rather amusingly, one of my work colleagues said "if they fine anyone tell them to take it out of the tax rebate they should have got when they were paying for their kids to be educated and they weren't being".... That's the best kind of humour, it has more than a ring of truth !

 

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I can assure you it isn't just me. In fact I'll bet you there are millions of parents who think this is stinking hypocrisy of the highest order.

You know exactly why they were kept out of school