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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-05-14 03:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #3419 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3419 ⌋

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Re: Confession Thread

[personal profile] ill_omened 2016-05-14 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
To clarify.

The debate is about the fact that (just overturned) families could be fined something of the order of £60 per day per parents for days missed by kids for anything barring sickness or family emergency or religious bullshit because of course. The debate is about how unreasonable this is. Not 'oh I knock a hundred pounds off our flights if I take my kid out of school a week early'.

Re: Confession Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-15 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no. The fine is so that just taking two weeks off to save a couple of hundred is not the money saver. It is so it literally pays to keep the child in school and learning. Illness and family emergency are reasonable reasons to take time off, saving some holiday moolah is not reasonable and it should not pay to do it. It isn't a punishment, it is a cancelling out of that monetary saving for disrupting that child's education and the other children in class's education who now have to have their own education interrupted while the truant is brought back up to speed with everyone else.
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Re: Confession Thread

[personal profile] ill_omened 2016-05-15 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well for starters it's just a straight up badly written law, and the actual reason it's been kicked back to parliament is exactly that.

But skipping past that. Do you seriously think that 'saving a bit of moolah' is the central reason in any meaningful number of absences? It's not, it's plannings and schedules and similar realities.

And the rest of the class is constantly interrupted by the fact we have a system which is terrible at dealing with a huge range of students. 'Catching up' makes no serious impact to that. This is a nanny state law, brought in from a position of patronisation because the government believes 'that council house lot' can't look after their own children, and it's got the side effect of impacting everyone who can make a reasonable judgement call.