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That's just one example, and not representative of most schools. Had you have said 12 weeks in your school, I wouldn't have said 13.

I just don't buy it, sorry :shrug:

My mistake, I thought you were talking general professional office jobs, not yours. 6 summer, 2 Christmas, 2 Easter, 3 single week half terms = 13. Are you a maths teacher?

How have they worked those figures out? Did they ask Teachers how many hours they do? :rolleyes:

Where's Dr No? 7 hours a day my arse. Nah, I ain't buying that. What? They get 13 weeks. Plus the other bank holiday. I do know teachers, and it's certainly not 'turn up at 9, done at 3:30' all the time, but they're not doing 50/60 hours a week (unless it's a new job).

Well you're going to have to if you can't afford it.

Yep, hopefully they'd just write to the council explaining that they understood the policy, but they simply couldn't afford the fine, and provide some evidence. Hopefully they council would see sense. Indeed.

Oh :blush: Listening to the news, I just thought it was £60 and thought 'Just pay them and damn their insolence'.

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Never! It depends what 'it' meant in your post. It looks like that 'it' meant 'you can't afford to take your kids to Disneyland'. Indeed. I'd have paid it. Although in the example above, where a family had a last chance to be together due to illness, I might have held my ground.

Should have let the council take that one to court, the ****s. Name of other parent and school secretary would be useful too, it's a while since we've had a good Jamie.

I can't. I clearly can, I just took them in term time. I don't disagree with the court ruling though. £60 on top of the trip is still a huge saving. Although our school didn't fine us. And our kids attendance is still way over 95%, even with the holiday.