UK news: 'Why can’t we go on holiday when we want?': Parents' anger as they're fined £480 for taking children away during school
Two parents have hit out at being fined a whopping £480 for taking their children on holiday during term time, describing it as a punitive punishment.
They were given warnings before their last trip, in September, that it would have a detrimental effect on their children's education. "My wife is a hospital theatre nurse who worked during the Covid crisis and they have a massive backlog of operations they are doing at the moment and it is difficult for us to get time off when we can all go together," he told YorkshireLive.
Mr Benson, from Redcar, said they have reconsidered doing it again after the school warned them about their kids attendance. "But I work hard full-time and my wife works for the NHS so why can’t we have that entitlement to go on a holiday?" He added.
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