Raging at the ‘joke’ fine, which sees each parent charged £80 per child for time off outside of term time, Tash took to social media to share her frustration at the letter she received from the council after she took her children out of school for seven days.
Tash claimed that the fine was for seven days of school absence, but one of her children, Lucy, in fact only missed six days.
"In the majority of cases, schools and local authorities will try and provide support to help you improve your child’s attendance first, but if this isn’t effective or the absence is for unauthorised term time holiday, parents may face paying a fine.".
Tash, a mother from the UK, explained that she and her husband went with their children to Thailand for two weeks in October - one of which was during the half term and another which was not during the school holidays.
Clearly not impressed, Tash said: “£80 per parent, per child, so apparently me and my husband are criminals now because we wanted to give our children a once in a lifetime experience.”.
