How are schools allowed to take pupils on holiday in term time?

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Last year my DD was fined for taking her DS out of school on holiday for three days during term time. This year the school is taking him and his class on holiday to the Isle of Wight for a week during term time. How can this be allowed. I have never seen a better example of don't do as I do do as I tell you. Why aren't more parents fighting this injustice.

Every school trip abroad I went on was basically a jolly for the teachers after 8pm
You have to be kidding? Staying up until the early hours sat on the floor in a corridor then having to go at dawn to get everyone up again? Dealing with misbehaviour (and often safeguarding or friendship issues) far from home. Taking a large group of kids on a plane :o dealing with fussy eaters and 'DS doesn't want to ski today and you can't make him' (so we have to stay in the hotel and are a man down on the slopes). They're generally unpaid and often run over a weekend. I genuinely love school trips but they're exhausting and bloody hard work!

How is skiing with the school more educational than skiing with parents?
Local authorities could make termtime holidays illegal if they REALLY thought they were damaging to a pupils education, but no they choose to fine middle England parents who do this instead.That tells you everything you need to know namely we are cash cows to be milked by the council

Our ski trip is during half term so we only have a day off if the flights warrant it. Otherwise the whole of our week off is spent with other peoples children. If there wasnt the demand we wouldn`t run it.

Maybe if the majority of teachers were more organised and had their lessons planned in advance the child would be able to do the work prior to the time away from class

We have had parents asking for the work their child will be missing while they jet off on a cheap term-time holiday so that they can do it on holiday.

That's a no - the work is here (and planned in advance by our very well-organised teachers) for the children attending school. Your choice to take your kids out of school - your problem if they miss work,

Both my kids have done an 'educational' school trip to Paris. The visit included a day at Disneyland. Don't get me wrong, they enjoyed it, and it was good value for money but the whole thing was no less of a holiday than any family holiday we've been on.