Fines for taking kids out of school during term time. Thoughts.

stuman said:
stop moaning about expensive holidays. you chose to have children. you could have stayed childless and had oodles of spare cash and been able to choose when you take holiday!
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Its a crying shame your parents didn't have the same attitude! :rolleyes:
 
RDM said:
The £60 fine is so much less than the savings you can make so it seems a bit of a no brainier.
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Presumably that's why more parents are being sent to prison for this offence :D A short, sharp, shock - that'll learn 'em.
 
I read an article on this a while back that stated the fine on taking your child out of school in term time to go on holiday was more than offset by the cheaper holidays compared to booking during the off term and summer hols. It mentioned that schools could combat this by instead of having teacher training days set out across the year but to include them all in one week (different schools can have different teacher training weeks so demand to book holidays in one specific week is now spread across the year dependant on the schools.)

This would then offer the chance for parents too book holidays that aren't in the most expensive time periods of the year and reduces the chances of them taking them on holiday during term time.
 
RDM said:
The £60 fine is so much less than the savings you can make so it seems a bit of a no brainier.
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Apart from your child losing X days of education for that year.

The fine exists just to make it clear to parents it is not okay to do that. Education is compulsory for children.
 
muon said:
Apart from your child losing X days of education for that year.

The fine exists just to make it clear to parents it is not okay to do that. Education is compulsory for children.
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yeah like all those days were we used to sit and play games at the end of term
 
muon said:
Apart from your child losing X days of education for that year.
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How much impact that will have will depend on when the extra holidays are taken and what year the child is in. My daughter is in Y4 and the last two weeks of term were mostly pointless so the harm would have been minimal.

I wouldn't recommend it during Y10 or Y11 though and it would be dependent on the ability of the child too.
 
Tefal said:
yeah like all those days were we used to sit and play games at the end of term
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Apart from the last day of term, that never happened to me.

RDM said:
How much impact that will have will depend on when the extra holidays are taken and what year the child is in. My daughter is in Y4 and the last two weeks of term were mostly pointless so the harm would have been minimal.

I wouldn't recommend it during Y10 or Y11 though and it would be dependent on the ability of the child too.
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I doubt those two weeks were completely absent of learning. In my limited experience primary schools tend to use it for more creative learning.
 
Depends on the timing, just because it's in term time doesn't mean they miss out on anything important.

During exams though is just pure stupidity.
 
Look for another job purely on this basis.

It's a strong enough reason and if it doesn't get you anywhere then at least you've tried.
 
itchy said:
Its a crying shame your parents didn't have the same attitude! :rolleyes:
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they did, they didn't take me out of school in term time. Nor did i ever hear them moaning about holidays being expensive they took us on holidays we could afford. camping in France for years and years. still great fun tho.

:rolleyes:
 
muon said:
Apart from your child losing X days of education for that year.

The fine exists just to make it clear to parents it is not okay to do that. Education is compulsory for children.
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What a load of old bullflop.

Like I said above, my Sister and I used to be taken out of school for two week holidays and our education didn't suffer one iota. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that we learned far more from visiting various European countries and sampling the language, culture and history first hand than we would've learned in those two weeks sat in a stuffy classroom being force fed a set curriculum.
 
Maybe teachers should start taking random holidays during term time to save money as well.

I'm sure the same parents will be perdectly accepting of this. After all, a week or 2 missed doesn't do any harm.
 
muon said:
I doubt those two weeks were completely absent of learning. In my limited experience primary schools tend to use it for more creative learning.
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I have a very studious child, she was very disparaging about the last two weeks of term. I'm also a secondary school teacher and whilst I had my own exam classes working to the last lesson I know that quite a few of the other subjects broke out the DVDs well before the last week of term...

A more common sense approach should be used rather than resorting to fines and threat of prison.
 
Malevolence said:
What a load of old bullflop.

Like I said above, my Sister and I used to be taken out of school for two week holidays and our education didn't suffer one iota. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that we learned far more from visiting various European countries and sampling the language, culture and history first hand than we would've learned in those two weeks sat in a stuffy classroom being force fed a set curriculum.
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Unless you have a control sample, what you are saying is bullflop.

It will do harm, you can argue about how much. I suppose you got perfect grades.

Let's check the average attainment by attendance rate. I would put money on their being a correlation even controlling for other factors.
 
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