law about childrens attendance at school - is 95% realistic???

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Should you be getting a letter for proven illness???? Should the school
be threatening you when your child has only ever been off for illness??? Is this just a cash grab by the local authority by women who feel threatened by the authorities that be, consider the potential £1000 ? Is this discrimination against women?? You all need to ask yourselves this question. We have two choices send our children in ill to school or alternatively get a letter about them being ill. Does this seem like a reasonable ask of parents to you ? Or does it just seem like a way by the local authority to make money from hard working , law abiding , kids and nurturing mothers ???? I would like to know your thought on this attendance law.

Why do travel companies profit on people having to , by law, go outside of term time on holidays. I have proof it costs three times more in holidays.

I think this may be more about money than caring about children's education and welfare as is purported.

I still don't understand how a child can miss that much time, mostly from colds.

At least 95% attendance is entirely normal for most children without serious health conditions. In fact the school becomes a target for scrutiny if its overall attendance figures fall below that sort of percentage. When they're asked what they're doing to improve attendance, what do you think the answer should be?

23 absences this academic year?
That's very high if so.

Now imagine it was a child that had that much time off that you didn't know the reason for - you'd want school to be on top of chasing it up, wouldn't you?

Personally, I hope the pandemic will make people fight against the stupid 95% attendance lark.
DS has never and will never have 95%. He has lung conditions, so picks up every chest infection going. This is not helped by kids being sent in as their parents are chasing 95% attendance.
We've been threatened so many times about it. Luckily all but 1 school backed us but it got to the stage of me being sent a letter which listed every date off and said each would give me a £60 fine. Despite the fact I had called every time. The Edu welfare lot didn't care and said they decided who was unauthorised. They had decided all but two were unauthorised.
It ended up being a charge of a stupid amount as his attendance was 82%, that was quite good for DS. Th school luckily stepped in and told them not to be ridiculous but I did have to threaten to counter claim for harrassment to get them to naff off.

11.5 days is still high for one term (unless you are also in receipt of hub care during covid).

It's usual for a day or two off each term for a heavy cold or otherwise feeling unwell. Many kids miss nothing. A small handful might miss 10 days during a full year, but not many at all.

Thank god the schools are following up on this kind of thing. Absolutely no child should be off for a cold. You should be concerned about the schooling they are missing. As an aside your rants sound quite bonkers and I imagine the school literally dreads dealing with you and trying to get your child in to you know, educate them, and to try and ensure a bright future for them. How AWFUL they are.

I agree that 11.5 days in one term is a lot unless the student has a chronic condition, or other reason to attend a lot of appointments. OP says this is mostly for colds - that seems a lot of time off for colds. OP is also very clear that none of these absences were COVID related. In fact, COVID related absences have a special coding and are not counted in the absence figures as far as attendance fines etc are concerned.