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That's true enough. I was assuming the attendance data (particularly that reported in the present case) excludes time off for illness..... If a kid take time off with no sick note, and when the parent(s) are contacted they say 'sick', is there any follow up? I assume, given the present case...

That's good to hear! Regarding the profiteering, that's just the 'free market'. The solution, as someone said, may be to let schools arrange their term times and holiday times on an individual basis. Cheers.

It was the court that defined 90% (or 92%) as acceptable, not me (if that's what you're implying - always so hard to read nuance). I suspect that one needs to factor in the context here. There will be kids whose attendance is 50% or less. The average is probably skewed down because of them. So...

The court accepted that the kid's overall 90% attendance was indicative of an otherwise excellent record. Therefore the parents hadn't 'done anything wrong. Utter nonsense. If I was absent from work 10% of the time (one day every fortnight) I'd have been sacked years ago.