00:00Kids need the education, but you've got to take into account the family circumstances as well.
00:05I'm an ex-teacher, and I believe I understand how important education is,
00:12but my grandchildren have on occasions been off on a holiday
00:17because it was the only time their parents could get free,
00:22because if you go only during the holidays it's very expensive and a lot of people can't afford it,
00:27and because what they were doing was pretty educational,
00:30they came back, they learned a lot, they'd spoken a bit of French,
00:33you know, it was a real eye-opener for them.
00:36So if I'd been their head, I'd have said, as their head did,
00:41go on, we won't...
00:44OK, and because they knew they'd work hard when they came back,
00:49so I think a bit of flexibility is needed there.
00:52Sounds like good to me. Nothing sounds like good to me.
00:56So we should do something different as a society.
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