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Exactly. And just what I said earlier in the thread. It should be a common sense decision but that's been removed. Having said that, we haven't yet been fined for going to Cuba in October/November so if the fine itself is at the discretion of the school then I suppose that may be why. The...

The real issue is that the government have taken away the power from head teachers to make these decisions. It used to work just fine where a kid who had exemplary attendance and high achievement could be taken on a term time holiday if the head deemed it educational and/ or not disruptive to...