Supreme court

Its your country that you mentioned

 Don't worry too much about the slander - I may decide not to sue 

I know that we are now in 'Chat' but isn't slander for the spoken word rather than written? 

Glad he lost his case, speaking from personal experience after attending over a dozen schools and having long periods out due to travel (by troopships), education IMO is one of the most important aspects of growing and shouldn't be used as a football!

We all have had to put up with increased cost due to school holidays.  OH work at a school for approx 25 years so even when we had no children at school we still had to pay higher prices.  We can still only go away at school holidays as Mrs One is committed to looking after other people's children as a cub and beaver leader.  

 I pointed out earlier we are all affected by higher seasonal prices, it's supply and demand. Even if it's uk holidays most want to go away in warmer weather..

Rather than analyse what the law does and doesn't allow, spend time trying to get headmaster's permission, worrying about how much the fine might be, comparing that to how much they might save on that luxury holiday.........perhaps parents should just instead think of their kids' education and leave them in school?

And then book a holiday during the school holidays that fits their available cash?

Just a thought.

But what happens if parents can't take time off during the school holidays?

Oh, and Ian, don't use sexist language, headmaster's permission - I do believe that there are female heads now

Regardless of the pros and cons of taking children out of school it is clear there are a lot of inconsistencies on how the policy is applied across the country. Perhaps this case will eventually galvanise the Government into action so that there is a fair system countrywide so there are no ifs or buts?

David

Saw in today's papers that some MPs think that there should be a cap on the higher amount that can be charged for holidays during peak times compared to non peak, one said no higher than £1000 of the lower price.

While there at it I wouldn't mind a cap on a lot of products but we're in an economy that functions on supply and demand.

Is that per night?