Pulling Kids out of School for Football?

Probably learn more on his trip than in a classroom, had it been England we'd have been summoned to court

I was the other way round. Years ago my children’s primary school insisted all the children went to the assembly hall to watch a football match instead of going to classes to learn. I was not happy nor where my girls as they hdd no interest in football.

Well i think it depends upon his childs workload at school, if they have important exams/coursework coming up, then it’s not great. However if the child is just doing end of year activities then i see no problem with jt

I do not personally like football but can totally appreciate a father wanting to share what could be a once in a lifetime opportunity. I remember when an entire year of girls, myself included all apparently got tummy aches on the same day. The coach, organised by the mum's took us from our local library to the horse show in London

I think that the child will see football as being more important than learning in the classroom which will hopefully one day set him on the road to a good job in the future.Gaps in education are not helpful to the child in question.

If you are going where its being played yes it's fine as long as you add in things like museums and local food and exploring away from the football. Only cos its educational

Aye that kid learned that Scotland really are , glad he learned that early. Will save him a lot of grief in later life.

My brother in law (honestly don't like calling him that) thought if his eldest son trained hard enough he'd be the next Ronaldo/Messi. Nope, nothing came of it.

We tried finding him (he's 18 or 19 now) jobs locally available, but he just doesn't seem interested, and his father somehow always gets sick shortly after being hired. No point helping people who can't be helped.

To go to Normandy and learn about D day landings I support but football matches? er no I don't think so.

Not a fan, but if it’s educational for the child (and they get to bond with their dad), I don’t have any issues with it (it’s not like it happens all the time, and 1 day isn’t going to hurt)

yes

especi if the kids are travelling to the matches

No absolutely not!

They would learn so much more than say sitting in a RE class

No it’s wrong. You can’t have 1 rule for 1 and different 1 for everyone else. Is football educational!! I’m not into football, my ex was football mad, played for local team etc and I still say to him I don’t why they don’t give each team a ball each so they don’t fight over the same 1

Children don't spend enough time at school. Watching football isn't in the carriculum.

Why not? Less time for teachers to encourage boys to chop their penises off.

Think it should be acceptable because of your mind being at the match when you're in school and can't concentrate

The 90 minutes may well have been precious parent/child time that makes a day in or out of school irrelevant. In 85-90 years time that kid may still remember that day as a special day. Will he remember another average school day?

When I went to school we were never allowed a day off (unless we were really really ill). Some days I’d tell my mum I felt too sick to go to school. She’d tell me that once I got there I’d feel better. If I still felt sick when at school tell the teacher and they could contact my parents to pick me up . Obviously I never told my teacher I was feeling sick so was never picked up from school poorly . Lol . We would have plenty of fun days out planned for school holidays but we had to make sure we attended school daily to be rewarded in the holidays. The days out would be wonderful but we would always moan that if we could have taken just one day off school there wouldn’t be such long queues to enter the theme park/ water park etc . However it didn’t matter what the reason we could not have a day off school.

One year my mum was in hospital on my birthday and I thought I could get the day off school as Dad didn’t think of school in such high regard as my mum. I said it was my birthday and I really wanted to wait for my mum to get home from hospital with my newborn baby sister. Unfortunately Dad didn’t want to upset my Mum and said it’s best I go to school . The quicker I get there , the quicker I’d get home and Mum and baby sister should be waiting for me. Lol . The longest school day ever…. Lol

Who can honestly look back and say what they 'learnt' in school is useful in their life now? I think you pick up more when you leave school and pick up more from people around you as you get older.