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Who's to blame for these fines rising so much, 60000 fined parents this year, up 100% from last year!!!

So is it parents? After all they could stay in the country, it isn't a necessity to go to costs del shit hole for two weeks, comming back with Sun burn and a new tattoo!

Is it schools being bastards! I mean what harm is it really gonna do

Is it the politicians. Well, a childs education is valuable and expensive.


OR


One that is never mentioned or dealt with.

How about the fuckin holiday companies upping the prices during school holidays. How about tackling those money grabbing shit heads. That would sort the situation straight away.
 
Holiday firms operate on the profit motif and the economic law of supply and demand, add to that there are many families that cant get two weeks off together during term-time, but why is it essential to get to a sunny foreign place every year when there is so much to see and do in the UK?
 
I remember being taken out of school in year 8 or 9 to go to Spain (where I effectively played football with the locals for the entire time, we played on their dust pitches and goal posts made of sticks - cool as fuck. Oh, but not the Sunday, religious stuff - 'init'). Anyway, don't think my parents were fined.

Must be a mixture of more parents doing it, therefore forcing the schools to get strict.
 
The government don't own your kids, you do what you want with them.

Why anyone would trust what that lot say about kids is beyond me, most of them are nonces or protectors and enablers of nonces, ignore their advice regarding children at all costs.
 
Cheaper to go out of school time and government crack downs.

We are in the same boat, no kids but as the Wife's a teacher all our holidays are expensive. What would happen if she took two weeks off in September?

We plan ahead, Florida next Easter is already booked and paid for. A lot cheaper this way.
 
For me, my family live a long way away, so if I want to take my kids to see them at Christmas for example it's going to be for longer than the 2 week break. And when I do that I believe they'll learn more on that trip than they will in a classroom for a couple of extra weeks. Looking forward to the conversation if/when my school tells me they're going to send out a fine.
 
It's a load of old bollocks.
I'm looking a £120 fine for taking my daughter (who is 5) away for a week in the middle of September.
Which is still less than the premium on holidays in school holidays!!
The bollocks part is that the fine is at the discretion of the school. Some are fined, some are not.
The fine is £60 per working parent (another kick in the tits for the working man) so if neither parent works you are cool.
I know of one kid last year who went to Egypt for a week and was not fined as the school deemed the trip educational??
A week larging it in sharm El sheik is a kind of education, but not one that I would say is part of the national curriculum.
What is my 5 year old going to moss in that first week of year 1???
I can understand if kids are missing SATS and GCSE'S, but as it. Stands it just seems bent.
 
LongLang said:
It's a load of old bollocks.
I'm looking a £120 fine for taking my daughter (who is 5) away for a week in the middle of September.
Which is still less than the premium on holidays in school holidays!!
The bollocks part is that the fine is at the discretion of the school. Some are fined, some are not.
The fine is £60 per working parent (another kick in the tits for the working man) so if neither parent works you are cool.
I know of one kid last year who went to Egypt for a week and was not fined as the school deemed the trip educational??
A week larging it in sharm El sheik is a kind of education, but not one that I would say is part of the national curriculum.
What is my 5 year old going to moss in that first week of year 1???
I can understand if kids are missing SATS and GCSE'S, but as it. Stands it just seems bent.
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I thought they don't do that because they can't say what is and what isn't educational? I'm sure I read someone on here saying they were going somewhere educational and the school said it didn't matter?

Regardless, schools are shite. I have no idea how I'll do my taxes when I get my grad job, they didn't teach me that in school - although they taught me how to turn on a Bunsen burner and make a couple of chemical reactions.
 
how do we know the holiday industry lobbyist have not been passing ''brown envelopes'' to make sure their cash cow is kept fat? Would it be a surprize if it was true? Would it fuck.
A similar suspicion exists over the farce of british summer time and the energy lobby, an extra hour of energy use for every household and workplace adds up to quite a few millions for the electricity suppliers at their highest tariff.
It's time for the so-called watch-dogs to act for the public not the shareholders of these corporations. Will it happen? Will it fuck.
 
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