School declined holidays and branded the kids truants

mjm3346

JVRMac wrote: »

I am being advised that there absence will be classed as truancy and we will be taken to court and fined £100 per child.

It is a fixed penalty notice of £100 per parent per child reduced to £50 for prompt payment (within 30 days I think). If you fail to pay within 42 days then it can go to court with fines up to £2,500.

mumps

I kept my two out of school for four years. They played, enjoyed life, generally had a great time. They had no problems when they started school, one was ahead of the class when they started and the other caught up with everyone else within weeks. Don't know what they had been doing for four years.

photome

This a very long thread with lots of opposing views, wonder where the OP is though?

spiro

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Really? So - if a child is off school for two weeks with measles or chicken pox, do you feel that the child's education is at risk? Of course not. But from your viewpoint, because the risk is so large, the child should clearly be in school infecting everyone else as well.

I could guarantee that I could teach in a day what a child learns in a week at school.

If I child is going to be off sick for more than a day or 2 a lot of schools now arrange for them to be given work to do at home, subject to the illness of course.

Murphy_The_Cat

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

I could guarantee that I could teach in a day what a child learns in a week at school.

& I'll give a 100% copper bottomed guarantee that my son will learn a great deal more with me for a week than being at school --- however it won't be accountable for on a tick column !

poet123

spiro wrote: »

If I child is going to be off sick for more than a day or 2 a lot of schools now arrange for them to be given work to do at home, subject to the illness of course.

Which is frankly ridiculous, if an adult is off sick do we expect their boss to send home thework they are not doing? If you are ill, you need rest, not schoolwork, unless it is a long term issue.

malkie76

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Really? So - if a child is off school for two weeks with measles or chicken pox, do you feel that the child's education is at risk? Of course not. But from your viewpoint, because the risk is so large, the child should clearly be in school infecting everyone else as well.

I could guarantee that I could teach in a day what a child learns in a week at school.

Sorry, but you are argueing apples and oranges. I merely stated that cost was no rationale for risking a child's education. Obviously the danger of infecting other children with a disease and hence impacting on their education is a huge risk.

thommy

malkie76 wrote: »

Sorry, but you are argueing apples and oranges. I merely stated that cost was no rationale for risking a child's education. Obviously the danger of infecting other children with a disease and hence impacting on their education is a huge risk.

i beg to differ. cost is very much a rationale if a parent feels that he or she will be improving the quality of a child's life experience. what's the better choice - a week at the end of term watching dvds, playing games, watching it rain through the window, or a week exploring pompeii, athens etc? that week may only be affordable during that term time week.....

sunshinetours

thommy wrote: »

i beg to differ. cost is very much a rationale if a parent feels that he or she will be improving the quality of a child's life experience. what's the better choice - a week at the end of term watching dvds, playing games, watching it rain through the window, or a week exploring pompeii, athens etc? that week may only be affordable during that term time week.....

Lets be honest - aside from some obvious exceptions on this thread, many parents aren't going to be looking at an educational historic family jaunt to Pompeii or Rome etc - its a week in a caravan at Havens or a week in Majorca in an all inclusive. Lets get real!

Ultimately this will come down to those who believe its ok to flout the rules in life when it suits their needs or wants (not suggesting that there aren't times when this is correct either) and those who believe generally that rules are there for a reason and try and work their lives best modelled around such rules

There are room for all sorts in society. What i can't stand are those who moan about the consequences of their known actions

eslick

one of the senior teachers at our daughters school recently took off 2 months to go around Australia still cant figure out how he managed to get so much time off during term time.