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To think Kerry Katona is the one talking BS and she thinks the rules don't apply to her.

57 replies

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 24/06/2019 12:56

Ok so she's not the best at relationships and she has brought the children up on her own more or less. Uptill about 6 or 7 months ago i would defend her. Brian walked away, mark was a drug dealing abusive shit, and the other one was mark without the drugs. None of that was kerry's fault. Well apart from of course actally being in a relationship longer than about 20 seconds before reproducing.

Only over the last few months shes really seemed to play the victim card over things she really can help. Getting a pink pug and using years old picture to advertise her mates appertite supressing injections. Tjat even daughter lily defended her on. Saying kerry is a single mother trying to support her kids.

Now i've been aware of the on case against Kerry for her childrens attendence. The two youngest girls partically rarely seem to be in school. She posts it all over instagram for people to see. There was a point her son got beaten up and she decided not to send him for a few days. Despite the fact that the perpertrators were from the high school and hes in primary. But ok a day or two recovery. But neither did the youngest daughter go. Theres pictures of the two youngest girls at this morning and loose women on school days.

So a few weeks ago, she was fined again as one of the childrens attendence dipped to 48% over half the school year missed. Now i pressumed it was one of tje younger girls for the reasons sited above. However in tje last 2 days shes come out saying its all bullshit, that she only put it a guilty plea because the child would be sitting exams at the time of the trail if she didn't. Which identifys the child. (Theres only one of the children living with her old enougb to be sitting exams. Her oldest lives in ireland with brians parents. And i'm in no way defending him) and she says it can't be 48% she only let the child out of school 3 days before christmas to see her in panto. And its the schools fault because the child was late and missed morning registration sge was marked absent all day.

Only thats not how secondry schools work is it?? Attendence can't be fiddled like that is it not all electonic these days? Even when i was at secondry school we were begining to have computer read registers. And registration is called twice a day is ig not? So even if the child was late in the morning and missed first registration then she'd be marked in for the second. Is there not a special code for late mark? Although i fon't know wether that counts towards attendence. So is the child not registering herself when arriving at school?

Or aibu in thinking that 48% attendence is awlful and it is kerry (and the father) responsablity to get the child to school on time. Especially in a an exam year. And the prosicution wasn't bullshit as kerry claims. And kerry is just playing the victim card.

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ScaryBunnyPainting · 24/06/2019 12:59

Eh?

Thehop · 24/06/2019 13:00

48% is outrageous!

ShatnersWig · 24/06/2019 13:01

Yes it's awful.

But frankly, what's more awful is that anybody gives a shiny shit about her or what she thinks. I just feel incredibly sorry for the poor kids.

IamPickleRick · 24/06/2019 13:02

I had 50% attendance in 1994. No one batted an eyelid.

ohnoessexgirl · 24/06/2019 13:02

I don't care.

Ohyesiam · 24/06/2019 13:02

I only managed the first paragraph, but how do you know all this?
Either you are the worlds worst friend , or you read too much gossip.

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 24/06/2019 13:05

I could not care less if I tried.

Comefromaway · 24/06/2019 13:07

48% attendance is appalling. The only possible reason I can see for it to be that low is severe medical or mental health problems.

feelingverylazytoday · 24/06/2019 13:08

Would need to know more. Are the children receiving home tuition to make up for their low attendance, or are they missing out on their education? If they're missing out then I agree with you.
Nothing's going to change though. It would appear that Kerry is financially awarded for having a messy life, so she doesn't have any real incentive to improve her situation.

daisyboocantoo · 24/06/2019 13:09

I can't read what you have written due to so many typos and no grammar.

deadbeatdead · 24/06/2019 13:13

In the schools I’ve known (teacher of 20+ years) registration is taken twice a day and the child who attends registration then skives the rest of the day will have (apparently) much better % attendance than the one that misses reg and turns up period 1. We do electronic reg every period but only the morning and afternoon count

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 24/06/2019 13:15

only managed the first paragraph, but how do you know all this?
Either you are the worlds worst friend , or you read too much gossip

Oh yes the typical self rightous MN doesnt care about celebrities we're better than any one else response.

I know it because its not a bloody secret she puts it all over her damn instagram i know i know social media is another thing thats frowned upon on MN but it exists and people like kerry document their entire lives through it.

For those that have replied you couldnt care less great good for you. I couldnt care less about half the threads on here. I'm not self rightous enough to declare it on ecery thread though

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hormonesorDHbeingadick · 24/06/2019 13:18

School have an AM and PM registration. If the child was very late in the morning as it arriving just before lunch and it was a regular occurrence then yes a special absence/very late code is used.

I would be concerned by any children with such low attendance without a valid reason but discussing her just makes her more popular and feeds her odd celebrity lifestyle which in this case does not seem a positive thing for her children.

boughtnotbrought · 24/06/2019 13:25

You seem way over invested in the life of someone you don't even know tbh

RubberTreePlant · 24/06/2019 13:25

This is a bit like being caught in a schoolgate gossipfest.

You're writing as if you actually KNOW these people Grin

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 24/06/2019 13:29

So dead so feesiably she could have been at school all morning but because she missed morning reg (being late and there was an issue at the beginning of the year - again docunented by kerry) and would make it look like she was absent for every morning therefore missing half the school year because shes miseed every morning (even if she hadn't)

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Scaredofthecity · 24/06/2019 13:29

www.google.com/amp/s/www.kentlive.news/news/sussex-news/kerry-katona-fears-bankruptcy-after-1949561.amp

I think this maybe something to do with it.

You do seem over invested though!

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 24/06/2019 13:30

You're writing as if you actually KNOW these people no i'm not i'm writing what is on her instagram that she tells the entire world

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crazyasafox · 24/06/2019 13:31

Well YANBU.

But I really, really, REALLY don't care. Sorry @NaughtToThreeSadOnions

blue25 · 24/06/2019 13:31

Why do you care and how the hell do you know all this information about a random person?

tomboytown · 24/06/2019 13:33

You seem a bit over invested

You can’t really know her circumstances

honeygirlz · 24/06/2019 13:33

I don’t know about Katona but I’m almost catatonic from boredom after reading that.

YouokHun · 24/06/2019 13:36

Step away from Take a Break

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 24/06/2019 13:36

Yes i've read that article. If she doesnt want to go bank crupt she should send her child to school.

Also i know the irish system where these fines do not exist and children have can have up to 20 days absence before it is reported to the education welfare board. So reading about people being fined for one day to go to a grandparents funeral. Then hearing kerry say her fine is bullshit for such a low attendece seems to me that shes using her celebrity to get away with things.

Thats my point why on earth do tje rules not apply to her. Now if the child has just missed registration in the morning that would indeed account for her actally missing 50% of the school year and kerry might indeed have a point that the figures are skewed.

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Ringdonna · 24/06/2019 13:37

No fucks to give.