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    #21
    Originally posted by tractor View Post
    Parents take kid on holiday in school time = fined and criminal record.

    School organises med cruise, skiing trips etc in school time and it's all ok.

    It's arranged as part of the school curriculum and considered part of the kids' education. HTH, BIDI.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #22
      Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
      It's arranged as part of the school curriculum and considered part of the kids' education. HTH, BIDI.
      True that. Sex education.

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        #23
        I'm still annoyed at having to pay a tenner for my child to visit a butterfly farm.

        Home schooling it is, I think.
        Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
        +5 Xeno Cool Points

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          #24
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins View Post
          I'm still annoyed at having to pay a tenner for my child to visit a butterfly farm.

          Home schooling it is, I think.
          Do you have a butterfly farm at home ?

          If so you should sell tickets

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            #25
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            Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
            It's arranged as part of the school curriculum and considered part of the kids' education. HTH, BIDI.
            Was that a dig? I am hurt.

            I know what the excuses are. That was not what I was pointing out.

            The practicality is that when I take kids abroad, I try to encourage them to communicate in the language and understand/participate in some of the customs.

            Kid 2 went to France 2 weeks ago, £350 for 3 days. When he came back I asked him how many new French words he had learned? Zero.

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              #26
              Any school trips we had were half-terms or holidays. They wouldn't take us out of all classes to try to improve just one. They were a bit like Spock in the reactor chamber, like that.

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                #27
                The joys of being the younger brother, when the eldest had school trips he got to go (Germany and France IIRC) by the time it was my turn my parents decided the novelty had wore off
                Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
                I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

                I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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                  Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
                  The joys of being the younger brother, when the eldest had school trips he got to go (Germany and France IIRC) by the time it was my turn my parents decided the novelty had wore off
                  All I got was a trip to an Oxford theatre to see Fenella Fielding in a boring bloody monologue. Attractive as she was, there wasn't even any nudity.

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
                    The joys of being the younger brother, when the eldest had school trips he got to go (Germany and France IIRC) by the time it was my turn my parents decided the novelty had wore off
                    Did they do the same with literacy?
                    Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
                    +5 Xeno Cool Points

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
                      True that. Sex education.
                      How true, I remember bonking Sally Webster, a girl form Hull, on a school trip to Innsbruck.
                      I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. [Christopher Hitchens]

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