I tell my friends in Australia about what goes on here and they think we are a laughing stock. Does anyone realise a foreign holiday is an education in itself.
People go on about rules and regs from the EU, the biggest problem is our own bureaucracy, you only have to look at Health and Safety...
Can't really see a problem with allowing up to 2 weeks out of school at the parents discretion, yet again its the state trying to control our lives.
Amazing parents have been jailed for refusing to pay the fine, it could only ever happen in this country