just been told as I'm taking my kids out of school for two days, I will be fined up to £160.00 by the school.........still it's cheaper than going in mid august by £1100.0

It's a joke how much more holidays cost in the school holidays...it's effected me for the last 15 years , even though we had no kids as my mrs is a teacher....does your nut in!

they have clamped down on it a lot , I have nearly always had to do it each year due to nature of my job , but I've not heard of being fined for it ..

How can they make you pay the fine?

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just been told as I'm taking my kids out of school for two days, I will be fined up to £160.00 by the school.........still it's cheaper than going in mid august by £1100.0

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How can they make you pay the fine?

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How can they make you pay the fine?

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Load of shite it's just a money making racket,there's kids round where I live that never go to school and nowt happens to them

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Load of shite it's just a money making racket,there's kids round where I live that never go to school and nowt happens to them

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Glad mine are grown up

My mrs best friend is the wag women at school,they always threaten to fine but never carry it out even the ones that do it every yr..

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My mrs best friend is the wag women at school,they always threaten to fine but never carry it out even the ones that do it every yr..

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Had a letter from my daughters school saying if you take your child out of school during term time you can be fined up to £500 per parent , might ask about this " law "

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Had a letter from my daughters school saying if you take your child out of school during term time you can be fined up to £500 per parent , might ask about this " law "

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fucking pissies me off this. when i want to take my kids out of school a week before they break up for a holiday I bloody well do, they can fuck then selves and their fine. within that week on holiday my kids would probably learn more life skills and be more knowledgeable of different cultures etc they would learn in school , and when the school keeps closing because theres half an inch of snow on the ground or they have those bloody inset days or they have a supply teacher for two months and just play the computers. The school system is a hypercritical load of shite run by disillusioned textbook preachers!.........i'm nearly sweating with rage

Taken my kids out of school nearly every year and never been asked to pay a fine,fucked if i'm paying an extra £1000 just to go in holiday times,travel firms don't help either though,the robbing cunts.

I highly doubt they'll actually fine you, it's just that they do have the power to do that. You could just say they were ill etc anyway.

Schools won't follow it through due to the fact they then officially have to say they have kids out of school and goes against them with ousted figures etc

You don't request to take kids out of school you inform the school that you are taking them out for educational reasons . That's the way it works at my kids school anyway and that's what I'll be saying next year when we go to Disney Land Paris.

Think our kids primary school allow 10 days a year before they kick off.

Take em out while they are young. Will be more difficult when they are older, doing GCSE etc.

Fuk skool lets go on holidaze1!!

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It's a joke how much more holidays cost in the school holidays...it's effected me for the last 15 years , even though we had no kids as my mrs is a teacher....does your nut in!

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I,m off to Goa Christmas Day not even bothering explaining to kids school , just going to phone whilst there and say they're ill after holiday

I work offshore and my ex took great pride handing me the following letter knowing full well I was taking my daughter away first week in october.... anyways was her school sports day today so I collard the headmaster and asked him about it, he said that's how it is... really...well your letter id dated june 10 and I booked june 1 and if you enforce anything I will go see such and such a barrister and drag your school through the mud..and you once all the children have left today. No problem Mr fwdcp seems as you booked before the date the letter was posted out. The fucking knob.

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if you read that letter it says its a penalty notice therefore it not a fine and you dont have to pay the other way around it is to use the laws against them by stopping you from taking your child out of school they are denying both you and your child your basic human right of spending time together/family holiday they cant make you the fine its just a big con like the parking charge/penalty notice ,