I’m a teacher – I don’t blame parents for term-time holidays ...Middle East

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In 2023–24, English local authorities issued almost 487,300 penalty notices for unauthorised absences — a 22 per cent jump on the previous year. Of those, a staggering 91 per cent were for family holidays taken during term time.

Prosecutions, nevertheless, remain rare: most parents pay up, and formal court cases are the exception – 28,000 parents were prosecuted in the last year, out of the near 500,000 penalties.

Plus the final week of term – at least in many state schools – is a wind‑down. Exams are done; reports done; teachers exhausted; students restless. There are assemblies, trips, sports days and maybe a film or two. Valuable? Occasionally. Crucial? Well, it’s certainly not worth £1,000 to some families.

square STEFANO HATFIELD

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Yes, schools need high attendance, especially post-Covid. But punishing families without addressing the root cause — gouging travel-price surcharges — feels like tilting at windmills with one hand tied behind our back.

I’m not saying parents should ignore attendance rules. Far from it: learning matters. I am devoting my life to it. But handing down fines without facing up to the cost-of-living calculus that drives these choices feels hypocritical. As teachers, we might not say it much, but we do see it. And for many, we quietly understand it.

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