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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: No matter of arms for the pub test.

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Speaker 1: Taking your kids out of school for holidays?

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Speaker 2: Does this pass the pub test?

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Speaker 3: Interesting? A Sydney primary school has sent home an email

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Speaker 3: or send a message to parents saying that they children

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Speaker 3: should only be allowed to go on family holidays during

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Speaker 3: school breaks. A lot of parents are up in arms

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Speaker 3: about this. It's so expensive during school holidays, it's harder

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Speaker 3: to get bookings. Parents can't necessarily take time off at

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Speaker 3: that time, So how does a family get time together?

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Speaker 3: Just got this email from Susan who said, I think

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Speaker 3: it's a gamble for your child's education. You could miss

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Speaker 3: some fundamental learning, could affect their progress. For some kids,

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Speaker 3: no biggies, he'll catch up. Others it could be a

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Speaker 3: struggle if you miss some fundamental maths or something like

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Speaker 3: that and you never actually catch up and the poor

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Speaker 3: teacher having all the disruptions. Go camping in the school holidays,

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Speaker 3: lots of playmates. You can sit back and have a

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Speaker 3: wine with the air reguard and that's all you need

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Speaker 3: for holiday. Even camping sites get completely booked out in

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Speaker 3: school holidays. I think we need to if we're addressing

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Speaker 3: work life balances, we're constantly being told to do. Sometimes

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Speaker 3: it might mean taking your kids out of school.

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Speaker 4: What do you think does it pass the pub test?

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Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. I think parents have been forced to

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Speaker 1: homeschool their kids, so why shouldn't they be allowed to

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Speaker 1: take their kids out of school whenever they like I do.

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Speaker 4: It's a week here or there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it makes it huge different.

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Speaker 2: And I've got a husband.

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Speaker 1: With a number of siblings through a school teachers and

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Speaker 1: here's coming where the school teachers could only have four

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Speaker 1: weeks paid leab.

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Speaker 4: Like everybody else, I work in a school environment, so

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Speaker 4: I'm aware of what parents need to do in terms

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Speaker 4: of spending time with your kids. You get parents who

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Speaker 4: complain that their kids are learning properly, but then you

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Speaker 4: look at their attendance record and they've had three weeks

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Speaker 4: off to go to Fiji, They've had two weeks to

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Speaker 4: go to a family wedding somewhere. You know that adds

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Speaker 4: up in a young child's education time, It really does.

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Speaker 1: I retired not long ago as at Prima School principal.

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Speaker 1: In a school curriculum, they can never ever get the

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Speaker 1: experiences that they get when they're overseas and away on holidays.

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Speaker 1: We used to ask our kids to do a daily diary.

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Speaker 2: Go for most people, but not for somebody who works

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Speaker 2: in a large retail. We have blackout periods where you

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Speaker 2: can't take any leave, for example, over Christmas and sale

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Speaker 2: times you can't take time off. So who's gonna look

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Speaker 2: after your kids or take them on holidays?

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Speaker 3: Who's going to look after the kids, Who's going to

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Speaker 3: take them on holiday? Very good points.

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Speaker 1: Thank for all your calls there