Anyone been fined yet for taking kids out of school?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Read somewhere rrecently of a CoE school taking a fortnight at Whitsun! Worked wonders, as school now breaks up a week later in the summer and the parents get a cheaper holiday.

Though if it becomes popular, it could change!

trollopscarletwoman

Undervalued wrote: »

Legally you only have to ensure that your child receives an education, you don't have to send them to school.

Quite right. You don't have to go to school to receive an education. You don't have to a a qualified teacher to provide an education. Nor do you have to follow the national curriculum.

However, here in Wales, the Welsh assembly are looking to tighten this up so it could be argued that in that aspect state inteference is increasing.

They've got to find something to do I suppose to justify their existence.

maman

Gra76 wrote: »

One of the teachers who did the French language classes at our secondary school would regularly hit pupils over the head with a ruler ..

Oh that explains a lot!;):rotfl:

eskimo26

In the 90's me and my siblings missed loads of school, we were quite spoilt so late nights and lame excuses got us off.

Secondary was a bit better but i was sick a lot which made a difference to my grades. If i had taken the time off but was healthy enough to catch up i would not have had problems, in fact before year 9 this was what i was doing.

We all got high grade GCSE's regardless, my Sister is now the PA to the Ambassador in a middle east country and she is only young [one of the warzones].

My brother is a medical underwriter and i'm sick with CFS but looking at getting a degree in OT after doing a diploma access course this year.

I think these fines are just another tax. If the Government actually cared about our children's education they would clean up the schools so it wasn't a lottery.

A lot of schools are not fit for purpose, our school was considered one of the best in our area and we still had disruptive pupils and bullies that were taking all the attention away from real students.

Now it is even worse, my cousin goes there and she is very patriotic to the school but they are to soft now. Soft on education, soft on bullies, it has changed drastically for the worse.

When we were there we got specialist status from some shrewd work from our head who had a background in business. Since she left it has been a slow spiral down.

So I'm a little cynical when people tell me it's for the benefit of the child's education.:(

Oh! also that school is still considered one of the best in the area so i dread to think what the others have become.

One of the teachers who did the French language classes at our secondary school would regularly hit pupils over the head with a ruler ..

My tutor/maths teacher in primary in the 90's was quite creative, obviously physical assaults were out of fashion by this time, so if a pupil was falling asleep on the desk he would creep up to them with a ruler and thwack it down with an almighty crack right next to the perpetrator's ear.

Halle71

We have already booked a holiday that means dd will have to take 1.5 days off at the end of the summer term without approval from school which we are going to apply for but will go anyway.

Am I right in thinking that because she won't be compulsory school age when we go (she's 5 in June so would be compulsory school age in September) we are ok?

In addition, when I looked into it on our LA website, they still have a document dated Jan 2013 which obviously does not mention the stricter update that occurred in September 2013. I have taken a screengrab to prove this.

I don't really want to use any of the above because we do have a good reason for travel, although I guess everyone thinks this. My partner is from NZ and (because it is impossible to get the three weeks we need to go visit there at a decent time) we are meeting his parents and his brother/SIL and their twins half way in Thailand for his Dad's 70th. We want to overlap their kid's holidays a bit as they are older and taking 10 days off school. I can't see the harm in taking a 5 year old out of school to see close relatives we hardly get to see.

GobbledyGook

Fines and the likes only kick in after 4 or 5 days.

QuackQuackOops

CATS wrote: »

We are going away at the beginning of May due to my mother's 50th birthday, I am taking her away on a surprise birthday trip. I have requested permission to take my son but this has been denied. I have never before taken him out during school time but this year I have to. Has anyone been fined for doing this? I have no problem paying the fine, I just wanted to know if this comes diretly from the school or the local authority? do they write to you and then you can pay? Just looking to see what the actual procedure is.

Thanks

Take your chiild out of school if you want to. YOU are the parent and YOU know what is good for your child.

Visits to other places and other people are just as educational.

Let them fine you if they want to but do not pay it.

If no parent pays, the fines will stop.

Mojisola

QuackQuackOops wrote: »

If no parent pays, the fines will stop.

If parents don't pay the LA, they will end up in court and have heavier fines. If they don't pay those fines, they risk going to prison.

laurel7172

barbarawright wrote: »

90% attendance isn't that admirable surely? Anyone who took 10% of workdays off sick at my workplace would find themselves seeing the occupational health service

Two thirds of the way towards getting the attendance officer involved (85%). 90% attendance is poor.

laurel7172

QuackQuackOops wrote: »

Take your chiild out of school if you want to. YOU are the parent and YOU know what is good for your child.

Visits to other places and other people are just as educational.

Let them fine you if they want to but do not pay it.

If no parent pays, the fines will stop.

Easy for a keyboard warrior to say, when it's the person you're advising who will face the consequences. Poor show.