School declined holidays and branded the kids truants

anderson8

so the only court action is if the parent refuse not to pay the penalty.
so not then for just taking the holiday in termtime

Penelope_Penguin

AnthonyUK wrote: »

http://www.eriding.net/resources/behaviour/100315_lrust_behav_sec_term_time_holiday_policy_feb_2010.pdf

Look at this from east riding council and you will find there is very little grounds that you can go on holiday in termtime, except certain circumstances(and even then you have to prove it with damn good evidence and reasons for it!), otherwise their answer is NO.

Oooooh, pick me, I'm well aware of that policy :j:T

Well, as a parent of a child in an East Riding school, working for an organisation that covers the whole county, married to and friends with several school Governors in the East Riding (and not long since having resigned my ERYC school governership, too), I've never heard of anyone being jailed for taking their children out for 2 weeks in term time.

ETA - this is a new policy and there's a blanket termtime holiday ban in East Riding for years 10 and 11 only AFAIK.

Do you have a link to a news article stating that this has happened, because the press here would have a field day with a story like that, and are bound to have covered it

Murphy_The_Cat

AnthonyUK wrote: »

http://www.eriding.net/resources/behaviour/100315_lrust_behav_sec_term_time_holiday_policy_feb_2010.pdf

Look at this from east riding council and you will find there is very little grounds that you can go on holiday in termtime, except certain circumstances(and even then you have to prove it with damn good evidence and reasons for it!), otherwise their answer is NO.

nope Anthony, thats nothing even close to what you were talking about

Penelope_Penguin

AnthonyUK wrote: »

Well all you parents who are prepared to ignore LEA's and schools and go on holiday regardless I hope you lose your child school places or even face a prison sentence or be on tag for it because that is what some LEA's are doing to parents who ignore schools and LEA's by going over their heads to take kids on holiday in school termtime periods, serves you right! It HAS happened round the country on one or two occasions to parents who have done because like I say some LEA's are tightening up so much on this that's it's impossible to do so without a severe punishment on the parents for going against what you have been told FULL STOP. Would you take your on holiday in school term time in an LEA area which implements these draconian measures if you knew it would hurt you as a parent knowing that the threat of a prison sentence or being on tag or losing your children's school places hangs over your head? Think about it because that is what some LEA's threaten on parents who go over school's and LEA's wherewithal and take them on holiday in termtime regardless of being told "you can't", by the schools and the LEA's.

Are you saying that this has happened in the East Riding?

AnthonyUK

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Are you saying that this has happened in the East Riding?

No love NOOOO!!!!!!

AnthonyUK

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

nope Anthony, thats nothing even close to what you were talking about

But if you look at it closely my idiot they STILL (apart from the circumstances mentioned in the document) disallow it your cr*p means NOTHING moggy!

Murphy_The_Cat

AnthonyUK wrote: »

No love NOOOO!!!!!!

But can you give us some examples of where it did happen ?

AnthonyUK

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

But can you give us some examples of where it did happen ?

No you argumentative cow

Penelope_Penguin

AnthonyUK wrote: »

No love NOOOO!!!!!!

So your picking the ERYC website as an example is a hed herring; I'm confused now (and there's no longer an appropriate smilie ).

Murphy_The_Cat

AnthonyUK wrote: »

But if you look at it closely my idiot they STILL (apart from the circumstances mentioned in the document) disallow it your cr*p means NOTHING moggy!

Anthony, I've put your sentence through babelfish and it came through as unknown language used - would you be able to translate it into legible English and post again.