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Many people think the fine is a flat £60. Im led to believe its infact £60 per child, per day, per parent. So 2 days for 2 kids is 2x £120 = £240!
Unfortunate illness.Do we deny our daughters and ourselves of this experience or do we risk irreparably harming their education because they missed a day of learning naff all?
So the joke that is the school system continues!
School are going on a trip to the seaside, all the kids from ages 4 to 9 piled onto a coach with the minimum levels of supervision legally allowed.
I don't feel comfortable packing my kids off on a 200 mile round trip where they will spend more time on the coach than they will off it, so have declined to send them, but stupidly promised the kids we would do something else instead - now the entire school are going with the exception of just a couple of other kids who have opted out, I said we'd go for a picnic to a national trust property if the weathers good.
Oh no though, I've been told in no uncertain terms that I WILL be fined and my kids need to come to school in uniform to be 'educated as normal'
Where's the harm in missing that day of lessons when the rest of the school are at the beach?
And why can't my kids miss a day of school to go to the seaside at my discretion?
Extremely flawed system, completely lacking in logic and any common sense!
I think that's harsh and that the school should use its discretion (assuming it's able to do so).So the joke that is the school system continues!
School are going on a trip to the seaside, all the kids from ages 4 to 9 piled onto a coach with the minimum levels of supervision legally allowed.
I don't feel comfortable packing my kids off on a 200 mile round trip where they will spend more time on the coach than they will off it, so have declined to send them, but stupidly promised the kids we would do something else instead - now the entire school are going with the exception of just a couple of other kids who have opted out, I said we'd go for a picnic to a national trust property if the weathers good.
Oh no though, I've been told in no uncertain terms that I WILL be fined and my kids need to come to school in uniform to be 'educated as normal'
Where's the harm in missing that day of lessons when the rest of the school are at the beach?
And why can't my kids miss a day of school to go to the seaside at my discretion?
Extremely flawed system, completely lacking in logic and any common sense!
Expressing a preference for discretion and common sense on this sort of matter shows a lack of discretion and common sense.I really don't see what all the fuss is about. As with most things in life, it's really not that difficult to achieve with a bit of discretion and common sense.
If you say so.Expressing a preference for discretion and common sense on this sort of matter shows a lack of discretion and common sense.
Even if they are just sitting in a classroom repeating yesterday, or just colouring-in or whatever actually goes on by this part of the year, we must accept the fact that they can never learn what they missed that day, it will be gone for ever and remain completely unattainable for the rest of their lives.
Expressing a preference for discretion and common sense on this sort of matter shows a lack of discretion and common sense.
Even if they are just sitting in a classroom repeating yesterday, or just colouring-in or whatever actually goes on by this part of the year, we must accept the fact that they can never learn what they missed that day, it will be gone for ever and remain completely unattainable for the rest of their lives.
Just as a follow upIf it's anything like the school the child we care for attends, they have all sorts of procedures in place regarding absences & child protection. If a child is absent & no-one has informed the school they will contact the child's contact list. If they can't make contact they'll report it to the police ( there's a couple of steps before this). It'll be recorded as "unauthorised absence". If the child is "ill" & a responsible person informs the school before 9am no further action is needed & it's recorded as "authorised absence". Usually informing them just means leaving a voicemail message on their absence line. I think you can work out what I'd do.
In our case the school won't normally report "unauthorised absence" if the child has less than 10 absences in any 2 half terms (1day would mean 2 absences, am & pm). According to our contact at the school, they don't issue any fine. It's their decision whether they report the incident to the county council who have the final decision about penalty notices.
We took him out of school for 5 days last year, we applied for prior permission. We weren't "officially" granted permission but he was marked as 3 days authorised, 2 days unauthorised. No further action was taken. He did have 100% attendance other than that though & he is doing really well at school.
You could always give it a try.Can I claim a rebate on my council tax,. whereby I unconditionally make a community contribution to provide education for Tom, dick and harry and yet they are No's when the register is called.......