What are your thoughts on this?

[Ann]

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[daffy654]

She should have paid the £50 fine.

[2sp_]

I think the council is right to take her to court over the fine.

There are plenty of school holidays available when they could have got married abroad, or she could have married here.

[sandyRoe]

It's a great shame that the term 'bastardy' doesn't carry the stigma it once did. It used to be the fashion to wed before the children came along.

[Sqad]

sandy....LOL

[rockyracoon]

Yep, I think she should have just paid the fine, still cheap at the price when you consider how much dearer the holiday would have cost out of term time.

[commoner]

lol sandy..agree..maybe NORM would be applicable either....

like this...meet the girl...walk out a while...get married..THEN sleep together and have kids.....and stay together ..till death us do part...least that's how my life has been :-))

Surely I'm not the only one..??

She knew the rules..should have increased the fine per day IMO.

[2sp_]

I don't know why she bothered asking permission if she was going to take him out of school anyway.

[Ann]

I know some schools are much stricter than others on taking children out of school for holidays etc, depending on the Head, that doesn't seem fair to me.

[2sp_]

It is up to the individual Head to use their discretion when requests are made. The only way to make it fair would be to ban all absences during term time (other than illness or doctor's appointments and the like.)

[rockyracoon]

We got a letter home about unauthorised absence, it said if we took our children out of school without permission then the head would offer the place to someone else and we'd have to look for a school elsewhere! I do think he allows the occasional holiday though, as long as people don't take the p!ss.

[Sammy48]

If it was a one off and she was not in the habit of taking her son out of school on a regular basis, i cannot see the problem.

[mrs_overall]

Hi Ann - hope you are ok. I realise that the email address I gave you ends with hotmail.co.uk NOT hotmail.com. The offer is still there xx

[commoner]

lol..sam...in this particular case it hopefully would be a one off....well..er...just until her next summer wedding maybe....;-)

Sorry ..know what you meant but just saw the funny side...!

[naomi24]

I think the head teacher was pretty mean.

[mccfluff]

oh come on, its was her wedding. that's a bit mean considering the price would of gone up massively if she re-arranged it for the school hols

[emmie]

not sure but he is technically playing truant?

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// It's a great shame that the term 'bastardy' doesn't carry the stigma it once did. It used to be the fashion to wed before the children came along. ///

I think your reference to the term bastard is shameful to say the least.

How do we know that the chap she was marring was the children's real father?

Perhaps the real father has died or they have had a divorce, it is not unusual for second marriages these days.

[Baldric]

It says in the article that the boy is her son from a previous relationship!