Fines for holidays
I don't understand. Why are parents not collectively kicking off about this ? Striking ? Refusing?
Maybe controversially, but I'm a teacher myself.
Yes, it is super annoying when a child takes off 2 weeks for hol. But, will they make some awesome memories and have precious family downtime? Very likely.
All the fines do (which were introduced by government) is drive a wedge between usually families that are on board with school policies.
It increases lies. Why tell school your child will be off for 2 days and just say they're unwell?
Then, I see absurd comments like 'well techers strike' or 'well teachers have INSET days'. What? We can't train and teach a class simultaneously. A lot of the strikes have for 10+ years not only been about pay freezes but also cuts to funding!! Which some parents are only realising now! Like the fines are even our choice š¤£š¤£. 99% of teachers have nothing to do with attendance - we just say if someone is in or not. Even headteachers, who previously had more power, can't really say much over authorised or unauthorised now.
Yes, there are families and safeguarding issues that these fining policies are meant to prevent/protect but it doesn't always do that!!!!
It feelslike the easiest thing to do is bash teachers on social media rather than doing anything about it š¤·āāļø
Also, don't forget some of us are parents and teachers and these issues do also affect us and our familes!!
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We don't have fines for vacation here but I've noticed y'all take a lot of holidays compared to us. It's considered a luxury and whenever anyone I know has taken a vacation it's for a week. Unless someone is going to their home country in which case it's months and usually during summer break.
The real enemy is travel companies that get away with charging extortionate prices in the school holidays. Instead of tackling that the government have chosen to penalise parents with fines and threats of being taken to court and made schools look like the bad guys. The whole situation is disgusting from start to finish.
Yeah thatās stupid. As long as the parent understands that Iām not going to jump through hoops to catch their kid up and itās on them, then they can do what they want.
Fines = legal for wealthier people. Richer families will just factor the cost of the fine into the holiday, whereas that fine might be the difference of whether they can go or not to a family thatās saved and saved for the holiday. If there are going to be fines, it should be a % of the family income.
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I don't understand. Why are parents not collectively kicking off about this ? Striking ? Refusing?
Maybe controversially, but I'm a teacher myself.
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