Fines for taking kids on vacation?
Apparently here in the UK I could get fined £60/day for taking my kid out of school to go on vacation? I don’t think this was a thing back in the US. Lol. I’ll do it anyway but that will get expensive fast 💀
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robb65 · 56-60, M
I've never heard of it hear. You would be counted as absent and if you had too many absences you could get in trouble.
Once upon a time being needed for farm labor counted as an excused absence. I tried that once, my dad was taking some horses out of state and I wanted to ride along. It didn't work. Meanwhile a classmate managed to go on an out of state hunting trip and got it excused. His father happened to be the principle at the Jr high school and I think he played football as well. It seems if you played football you could get away with just about anything.
I pulled my kids out of school when my oldest was about to start the 8th grade and we home schooled. My son once went with a friend to a concert in another state on a Saturday night. We were supposed to get him back Sunday but it took us a week. Not a problem.
Once upon a time being needed for farm labor counted as an excused absence. I tried that once, my dad was taking some horses out of state and I wanted to ride along. It didn't work. Meanwhile a classmate managed to go on an out of state hunting trip and got it excused. His father happened to be the principle at the Jr high school and I think he played football as well. It seems if you played football you could get away with just about anything.
I pulled my kids out of school when my oldest was about to start the 8th grade and we home schooled. My son once went with a friend to a concert in another state on a Saturday night. We were supposed to get him back Sunday but it took us a week. Not a problem.