So how did Wes get on with the evil head teach today?

[bbrian]

Is he in detention too i wonder?

[World's End Stella]

Is he in detention too i wonder?

All terribly civilized, other than the bit where she assured me my daughter was thick enough that she couldn't possibly miss a week of school even though I had made it clear that that was almost certainly going to happen.

In the end it amounted to nothing more than me assuring them she would spend the last week before she returned to school revising the work that she missed while she was out. It did get slightly uncomfortable when she told me that the teachers would make no special arrangements to help her with the material that was taught while she was absent:

WES: so you're telling me that if Miss WES doesn't understand something from that week and asks for help her teachers will tell her that she's out of luck because she was on holiday?
Headmistress: No, of course they will help her
WES: fine, so there's no issue then
Headmistress: well, she really shouldn't be missing school and I can't assign teachers to specifically address issues that result because of that
WES: I'm not asking you to
Headmistress: oh well that's all fine then

[Ash]

All terribly civilized, other than the bit where she assured me my daughter was thick enough that she couldn't possibly miss a week of school even though I had made it clear that that was almost certainly going to happen.

In the end it amounted to nothing more than me assuring them she would spend the last week before she returned to school revising the work that she missed while she was out. It did get slightly uncomfortable when she told me that the teachers would make no special arrangements to help her with the material that was taught while she was absent:

WES: so you're telling me that if Miss WES doesn't understand something from that week and asks for help her teachers will tell her that she's out of luck because she was on holiday?
Headmistress: No, of course they will help her
WES: fine, so there's no issue then
Headmistress: well, she really shouldn't be missing school and I can't assign teachers to specifically address issues that result because of that
WES: I'm not asking you to
Headmistress: oh well that's all fine then

Fair play to her imo. It's your responsibility to see that your daughter catches up. If there's something she doesn't understand you can either help her yourself or hire some help.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Fair play to her imo. It's your responsibility to see that your daughter catches up. If there's something she doesn't understand you can either help her yourself or hire some help.

Well unless she needs help in her "spouting a load of old pompous tosh about food and politics" lesson she'll be out of luck Ash

[redgunamo]

Fair play to her imo. It's your responsibility to see that your daughter catches up. If there's something she doesn't understand you can either help her yourself or hire some help.

No, the whole point of fee-paying schools is it doesn't matter whether they catch up or not.