school unofficial absence fines

[squirtyflower]

I've no experience of this and would like to know how they enforce the fine? Is it the council you pay it to? What is the punishment for non-payment?

The fines are doubled, if not paid, potential court action

 

[Blue Haze]

Wait, you can be fined for taking your kid out of school in Britain? Wow.

 

[squirtyflower]

Wait, you can be fined for taking your kid out of school in Britain? Wow.

Yep
Nanny state gone mad

 

[Mrmcfc]

I've no experience of this and would like to know how they enforce the fine? Is it the council you pay it to? What is the punishment for non-payment?

Your kids get suspended from school.

Surely not.
The irony.
:)

 

[LongLang]

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.

Induction maybe, all the why's & wherefores explained, introduction to classmates etc ?

They do induction in the last few weeks of reception. She's been at the school through nursery and reception so the class is essentially the same as last year's. Same kids same procedures etc, so she is more than aware where her coat will be going.

Also, do I get to counter fine them for the days of missed education due to teacher strikes???

 

[LongLang]

Simply get your offspring to kick a teacher the week before going away. A weeks suspension always comes in handy..

Boom problem solved.
We're going to florid next year, will a falcon punch get her 2 weeks?

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

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?

Thread needn't have continued after this fine post.

Dunno. Thread is based upon the financial hit families take. Anyone who has holidayed in the U.K with kids knows it costs as much as flying abroad.

 

[sickboybloo]

it's not just about holidays, the parents of a kid in mu daughter's class were threatened with a fine because their kid was in hospital for a month.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

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?

it's not essential, but it's nobody else's business on what, when and where people spend their hard-earned money.

 

[mcmanus]

Right, holiday companies and travel agents do NOT put the prices up in the school holidays. That's the correct cost. They reduce the price during school term time.