Originally Posted by
DanW@FastFord
Your view is all well and good with it comes to secondary school aged kids Chip, but for primary and junior kids they learn more about the world on a holiday, than they do at school.
Depends on the age, towards the end of primary school you start to learn some fairly useful stuff as it effects your ability to do an entrants exam for secondary school.
Kids upto about 8-9 or so though I agree that its unlikely missing a week is going to matter much.
And for older kids, like Ive said in this thread, there should be an agreed way of doing so without impacting their education, such as extra work or homework.
It's also an easy argument to make when you don't have kids, but when you realise just how much more it costs to take your kids away in the holidays it really is the difference between having a holiday and not having a holiday for some families.
Agreed, its a massive difference, and if more people could take their kids (on an agreed scheme with extra homework etc) out of term time the prices would start to level off slightly as well as currently the premium charged for going during school holidays is ridiculous!
Agree that the school needs to keep tabs on it, and actively discourage it, but four figure fines are just daft.
No, 50 pound fines are just daft, whats the point in a fine at all if it is so tiny its not a deterant?
There should be a BIG fine, but a way of avoiding it totally by doing the work, like in my post above, a small fine and no alternative isnt a good enough system IMHO