MSE News: Government to fund appeal of term-time holidays High Court ruling 9 June 2016 at 6:19PM in UK holidays, days out & entertainments 15 replies 2.8K views

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The Department for Education has promised to fund further legal hearings to appeal a term-time holiday High Court ruling...

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Michael_Nottingham

Cameron - enough is enough - please stop wasting our money

MacMickster

Every day counts insist Dodgy Dave - but not if the school decide to close at lunchtime so that the [STRIKE]teachers[/STRIKE] pupils can go home (at what inconvenience to parents) and watch a football match on TV.

tomtontom

Michael_Nottingham wrote: »

Cameron - enough is enough - please stop wasting our money

I agree, far easier just to tighten the law to ensure further appeals are unsuccessful.

tgroom57

I agree with the above. The DfE are acting like bullies and angling for powers they have no business having. Simplest would be let this one go.

Remind me, who's money is the govt spending in this case?

PS the attendance figures in this latest piece differ from the original article

Her attendance was at 100% up to the holiday being requested, and 93.2% by the end of the school year the holiday was taken in.

jamesd

Would MSE be kind enough to communicate with Mr Platt and offer to allow posting here of links to such an authenticated way for people to provide funding for his legal bills?

I'd happily send an initial Pound that way, say with any excess at the end to go to the MSE Charity, financial eduction or population-weighted contributions to CAB national bodies. There's also a fair bit of merit philosophically in such a people funding opposition to a government case approach and it's interesting enough that it has a good prospect of garnering very widespread press coverage.

davidgmmafan

Why can't we just have a little commo sense? Why can't schools and parents be trusted to work together instead of the the government setting them against each other? If you make it a confrontation you risk damaging that relatonship.

If a child makes up their work and who knows maybe goes somewhere on holiday that broadens their mins what is wrong with that?

On the other side of the coin if people get a fine in order to save vast sums of money then aren't they still quids in if they pay the fine? Why do they let it go all the way to court then moan about much it is?

Pincher

We need to get away from this be all you can be non-sense.

There is no way these brats can all be doctors and lawyers.

It is about time that we form career oriented guilds, with high recruitment standards. Once in a guild, the training process will eliminate weak candidates, who will be put back in the general pool of unskilled labour. If they cannot accept this, they are encouraged to emigrate to other countries, or be placed on compulsory organ transplant donor lists.

Bad plumbers and bad lawyers should be placed on donor lists or just executed if they are really bad. People on the donor list can study hard and get off the donor list.

boo_star

It's a shame they're pursuing this as I don't think most people see a problem with children occasionally being taken out of school to go on a holiday.

I remember back in my childhood, my parents asked for me to be excused for three or four days before the summer holidays began. My form teacher laughed and said "The headmaster will never allow it." A day later he hands me a letter granting it.

I lost out on three or four days of school. Not actual learning as the final week consisted mainly of showing videos and other (relatively) fun stuff.

I certainly agree that parents being able to pull their children out of school whenever they want is bad but if the headmaster agrees it's OK and the child is otherwise performing well, why not?

It would seem to me that the government is no longer fit for purpose, it doesn't represent the opinion of the country.

Discodee

Ok, I took both my kids out, in term time, every year for 2 separate weeks. They have been to 21 different countries, are both proficient skiers, have been to Auschwitz, the Eiffel tower, the Berlin wall, Prague, Madrid, barcelona Amsterdam and visited many many historical places. My daughter got 11 A* GCSEs and 4 Grade A A Levels in French German Maths and Further Maths. My son got 1 A* 2 As and 8 Bs in his GCSes (The Bs were all 88/89%) and has just taken 5 AS levels. They're clever, well balanced kids and well educated in many things, not just things they've learned at school. The law is an !!!. Why don't people just get their mate/sister to ring their kids in sick instead of telling the school they're going away??????

Discodee

davidgmmafan wrote: »

Why can't we just have a little commo sense? Why can't schools and parents be trusted to work together instead of the the government setting them against each other? If you make it a confrontation you risk damaging that relatonship.

If a child makes up their work and who knows maybe goes somewhere on holiday that broadens their mins what is wrong with that?

On the other side of the coin if people get a fine in order to save vast sums of money then aren't they still quids in if they pay the fine? Why do they let it go all the way to court then moan about much it is?

Why dont they just take the kids off as "sick" ??