holiday fines

barbarawright

Pollycat wrote: »

I agree. A holiday away can teach kids so much. But as tomtontom points out, a week in an all Inclusive hotel in Benidorm will hardly teach kids anything useful at all.

Also, isn't the 14 weeks of school holidays intended for...taking your kids on holiday? That seems quite adequate to me

Jagraf

Pollycat wrote: »

I agree. A holiday away can teach kids so much. But as tomtontom points out, a week in an all Inclusive hotel in Benidorm will hardly teach kids anything useful at all.

But a week on Benidorm is very much a cultural experiene!

scooby088

I am come to the conclusion that school holidays should be limited to 28 days a year, can be taken when ever you want them apart from exam, sats week. I cant see any good reason why there really needs to be so many holidays.

meer53

The petition should be about getting holiday companies to stop ripping families off during school holidays.

bluenoseam

Jagraf wrote: »

But a week on Benidorm is very much a cultural experiene!

A day trip to Scarborough will cover all the cultural experience from Benidorm in 3 hours.

Pollycat

scooby088 wrote: »

I am come to the conclusion that school holidays should be limited to 28 days a year, can be taken when ever you want them apart from exam, sats week. I cant see any good reason why there really needs to be so many holidays.

And when do you propose teachers take their 28 days holiday?

DKLS

melanzana wrote: »

Hold on a minute. Are you saying that childless people like me will not be able to avail of cheap flights anymore during term time?

Me No Like That At All.... lol

I time my hols for when the children are AT school. The peace and quiet without screaming kids all round is total bliss. Please do not upset that for me. Thanks.

This !

Despite not having kids, I ensure I research school holiday times and holiday locations to minimise the risk of having my holiday ruined by lively children well thats what their parents call them.

If that doesn't work Bose noise cancelling earphones do.

Gra76

I've typed and re-typed this half a dozen times to try and find a reasonable argument to support taking my kids out of school in term time but the long and short of it is that it comes down to the money.

I can't justify paying the price to take 5 of us away in the school holidays. I can live with £3k for a decent all-inclusive for us out of term time but can't swallow the significant increase during school holidays, it's just not feasible. The same holiday is likely to cost close to double the price once the school holidays start.

I'm not exactly over the moon about paying the fine, I think it should only be applied to parents who's children have anything other than a perfect or near perfect attendance, however it still makes the holiday affordable even when you add it to the price of the holiday.

Our kids all have 100% attendance other than the occasional annual holiday we take them on and it's doing them no harm at all. Eldest is exceeding his targets by a fair distance as usual and the middle one is exceeding targets set for kids in the year above. Youngest is only just going up to full-time school now but she's bright as a button as well.

I agree that parents who's children have low attendance and take their kids out of school for a family holiday should be fined but when your kids have high attendance and are doing really well I don't really see the issue.

owen_money

Gra76 wrote: »

I've typed and re-typed this half a dozen times to try and find a reasonable argument to support taking my kids out of school in term time but the long and short of it is that it comes down to the money.

I can't justify paying the price to take 5 of us away in the school holidays. I can live with £3k for a decent all-inclusive for us out of term time but can't swallow the significant increase during school holidays, it's just not feasible. The same holiday is likely to cost close to double the price once the school holidays start.

I'm not exactly over the moon about paying the fine, I think it should only be applied to parents who's children have anything other than a perfect or near perfect attendance, however it still makes the holiday affordable even when you add it to the price of the holiday.

Our kids all have 100% attendance other than the occasional annual holiday we take them on and it's doing them no harm at all. Eldest is exceeding his targets by a fair distance as usual and the middle one is exceeding targets set for kids in the year above. Youngest is only just going up to full-time school now but she's bright as a button as well.

I agree that parents who's children have low attendance and take their kids out of school for a family holiday should be fined but when your kids have high attendance and are doing really well I don't really see the issue.

Oh right, so its ok for the clever kids to have a cheap £3k holiday, but the parents of the thickies have to pay full price because of their stupid children.

Gra76

owen_money wrote: »

Oh right, so its ok for the clever kids to have a cheap £3k holiday, but the parents of the thickies have to pay full price because of their stupid children.

Nope, that's not what I said at all. I don't quite get to how you've drawn that from what I said. That's the sort of conclusion my wife would come to without thinking... lol

What I said was I don't think it's fair for parents to be fined if their kids have a perfect or near perfect attendance and that parents of kids that don't have that level of attendance should be fined.

It's got nothing to do with 'thickie kids', it's got to do with attendance.

I also didn't say £3k for a holiday was cheap. I said I could justify it. Especially when you see how much the cost rises during school holidays.