term time holiday fine dodge

[lessthanBeau]

A friend of mine didn't bother filling in a holiday request form from school when she took her dc out for TT holiday, upon return the head sent a letter asking them to fill it in respectively, my df has just ignored this and says if she doesn't provide proof that they were on holiday they can't be fined by the lea.
the school only txt her on the first day for one of the childrens absence but not the other, she didn't reply and they didn't call again.
Has anyone done this themselves and not been fined? would we all bu if we did this and avoided the fines? not commenting on right or wrong of TT holidays, if you want to take your kids out you will, that's a different question, just wondering what people think of being able to dodge the fine like this and would you do it?

only to a certain degree

we have had a couple of parents who have had issues about their kids illness. borderline Munchausens type thing,

parents are WEiRD sometimes

the kid i saw on holiday had been to ibiza

I asked the prosecutor if they didn't need proof he was on holiday. they said merely that the kid wasnt in school and no reason was given

case proved
fined

don't need to say all I was going to, because pps have said it first, but if you want to see for yourselves:
www3.hants.gov.uk/absence-and-attendance-codes.pdf
you don't need to read all 37 pages, just go and look at page 2.

But just to say to this person (the "friend")
Just wanted to let you all know, my friend was never fined for this Holiday, and has heard nothing more about it. Now we're into the new school year we assume that its been dispensed with. My friend said when she was fined on previous years it was dealt with quickly.
What a delight you sound, please do have a

remember that may be a CODE
like the Highway code
not a law

well it's a code that every school I've ever known uses. and I don't know about academies, because their rules are different, but every non-academy school I know has no choice but to use the codes as listed AND to submit the data to the LEA. And it's the LEA who decide whether or not to fine (not the school).

whaddya mean never fined?
More people are being fined than ever.

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Parents-fined-term-time-holidays/story-27793613-detail/story.html