Samantha Womack says she decided to home-school daughter Lily, 14, because she felt ‘cross’ parents can’t take children out of school during term time due to ‘militant’ rules
Samantha Womack took her daughter out of school because she feels the rules are ‘too militant’ nowadays.
The 46-year-old actress – who raises daughter Lily, 14, and son Ben, 18, with her husband Mark – made the decision to home-school her youngest because she felt ‘quite cross’ that she wasn’t able to take her kids out of school during term time.
The former EastEnders star insisted travelling the world can be ‘just as important’ as learning algebra at times during a passionate conversation on This Morning during Tuesday’s edition of Loose Women.
Debate: During an appearance on Tuesday’s This Morning, Samantha Womack revealed she daughter out of school because she feels the rules are ‘too militant’ nowadays
Samantha explained: ‘I’ve taken Lily out of school. It got me quite cross that you can’t take your kids out of school for holidays and things. I just think that’s too militant.
‘Children are creative little human beings and sometimes travelling to other countries for families that couldn’t afford to travel any other way is just as important as algebra.
‘We tend to go towards the academic learning but …’
‘Quite cross’: She made the decision to home-school her youngest because she was annoyed she wasn’t able to take her kids out of school during term time (pictured with daughter Lily, now 14, during a rare appearance together in 2014)
She said: ‘Children are creative little human beings and sometimes travelling to other countries for families that couldn’t afford to travel any other way is just as important as algebra’
When asked how teachers are supposed to organise their classrooms if different pupils are on holiday at different times, Sam said it would surely be better for the children.
She said: ‘What difference would it make to a classroom? Surely most of the state schools are over-subscribed anyway and half the children aren’t getting attention because the 30/32 kids per one teacher.
‘Doesn’t it make it easier for the teacher if there is two less kids?
Quizzed: When asked how teachers are supposed to organise their classrooms if different pupils are on holiday at different times, Sam said it would surely be better for the children
Differing opinions: Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby engaged in a friendly debate with the soap star
‘If you were off with a bug for two weeks no one would be stressing out that they’d missed algebra for two weeks would they?’
Sam is currently starring in the stage production of The Girl on the Train, in which she plays alcoholic Rachel Watson, and says she has been branded ‘bladder of steel’ after chugging two litres of water during the play.
She said: ‘I’m going to wear that [saying] on the back of a sweatshirt now. I sink about two litres of water throughout the play, and I don’t go off-stage until the interval.
She said: ‘If you were off with a bug for two weeks no one would be stressing out that they’d missed algebra for two weeks would they?’
Family: Samantha raises raises daughter Lily, now 14, and son Ben, now 18, with her husband Mark (pictured in 2010)
‘And then I’m just in the toilet the whole time.’
Sam also admitted her former EastEnders co-star Steve McFadden, who plays Albert Square stalwart Phil Mitchell, is the best person she’s seen at portraying a drunk character.
She added: ‘He’ll be off set one minute talking about what you had for lunch, and then you literally just … I don’t know how he does it.
‘His eyes go glassy. He’s one of the best drunk actors I’ve seen.’
New venture: Sam is currently starring in the stage production of The Girl on the Train, in which she plays alcoholic Rachel Watson
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