lostangel: It simply amazes me that so many people on here don't seem to mind paying for nothing, even when they are so clearly not going to be provided any service.
The thing is, you'd pay for it one way or another. If they didn't charge you for those days then they'd work out the average number of such days taken and spread the costs over all the parents. Personally I'd rather the kid that didn't come got penalised rather than all the others.