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To: Education Minister
Stop fines for taking your children on holiday in school term
Families should be entitled to take their children on holiday in school term time and not be fined!
Why is this important?
Imagine not taking your child out of school to make memories and then losing them in their 2nd year of primary school.
Before we found out about Jayden's cancer we had letters about his attendance that it was far to low (87%) and he shouldn’t miss anymore time. I am so glad I never worried about his attendance and I made it a priority to make memories as a family.
I understand learning is important for children, but so is soaking up as much time as you can while there young, life is far to short to be worried about them missing the odd week here and there after Covid I don’t think they could really complain about children's attendance at least till they hit at least year 9 in secondary!
Make the memories while you can, tomorrow is never promised!
I lost my son to cancer at the age on 6 years old. If I never took him out of school I’d never have the memories I do with him.
Memories are just as important as getting an education and unfortunately for some families it’s not financially feasible in the school holidays so many families miss out.
Before we found out about Jayden's cancer we had letters about his attendance that it was far to low (87%) and he shouldn’t miss anymore time. I am so glad I never worried about his attendance and I made it a priority to make memories as a family.
I understand learning is important for children, but so is soaking up as much time as you can while there young, life is far to short to be worried about them missing the odd week here and there after Covid I don’t think they could really complain about children's attendance at least till they hit at least year 9 in secondary!
Make the memories while you can, tomorrow is never promised!
I lost my son to cancer at the age on 6 years old. If I never took him out of school I’d never have the memories I do with him.
Memories are just as important as getting an education and unfortunately for some families it’s not financially feasible in the school holidays so many families miss out.
