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could a peoples or say working class peoples union work ! we have to take a lot of shyte from various establishment and corporate powers that be , as an example if you want to book a holiday in the summer when the kids are on break from school holiday companys hike up the prices and threaten to prosecute parents who take holidays in the school calendar , they have got us by the balls and they know it ! but in this age of social networks it is easy for people to communicate and if enough people got together and stood firm and the vast majority of them took their holidays in the school calendar and I am talking 1,000s would for in the s they prosecute the lot of them ? and eventually would holiday companys have to give way and offer fair prices for parents ?
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Move to an area with a large asian population.
My eldest daughter took her kids on holiday in school time. The eldest was 10 (the youngest two are not school age yet) She was never fined as most of the school went missing at one time or another with asian holidays. They weren't fined either. |
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well my kids have all left school now ,but I remember the holiday companys taking the pish with a take it or leave it attitude, I also took my kids abroad in school time and was threatened with possible prosecution not just school holidays but several things ,just thinking if you take shyte they will throw more at you from all directions but if a majority refuse to play ball and stand together things would get better !
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A great idea but looking at the amount of interest your post has achieved sadly proves everyone in a way has given up on a lot of issues and just accept things.
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yeah bigmo my thoughts exactly , sadly its the british way! take whats thrown at you with a stiff upper lip and carry on regardless ,which is playing into the hands of those who want to make and enforce these types of sanctions . if they are squeezing the ordinary man and he don't complain then they will keep squeezing until there isn't much more left to squeeze and in the end you will feel gratefull for small crumb that drops your way .people will moan about their lot but will do feck all about it !
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It's the British way these days, it wasn't when I was at school. All that was required for a holiday was a note from your parents saying you were sick, which you took in when you went back to school. The school couldn't phone your home as hardly anybody had a phone, and mobiles were still 30 years off in the future.
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Too many people were taking their kids from school that action had to be taken. Seems like they were putting saving a few quid at the expense of their kids education first.
As for the holiday companies it's supply and demand. Always going to be dearer in July and August. |
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Okay akabula, try this one.
When I was at school in the 1950s and 60s there was no such thing as a 'teacher training day', where staff were absent. My children were occasionally sent home because of 'teacher training days' in the 1990s, so why were the parents not able to fine the school, because in a family where both parents work, one of them had to stay at home and suffer loss of wages, or lose it as one of their holiday entitlement days. |
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Is it possible to take the government to court, like a landmark case thing. It always seemed to me that it broke some kind of natural law (human rights?) that you could be fined for taking your kids on holiday when you want. The govt are basically saying if you dont give us your kids we will take money off you. Fk that.
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That's a different scenario to what FW is complaining about. Unhelpful but I'd doubt you had any recourse. |
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yeah the school holidays thing was just an example ,may be the majority are happy enough with the way its run and don't mind paying over the top ,and as a poster said earlier there is a moral or guilt "issue " that you are depriving your children of vital education (more emotional blackmail )do teachers get special holiday rates ? ,if not, they are also being penalised for educating our kids!
why do we take this shyte! the powers that be must love the people of this country, knowing they can stick the boot in and all they will get in response is a whimper ! |
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Can't be long before someone mentions "Sheeple" can it?
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What next? Do we attack the exorbitant prices that pubs charge outwith happyhour? Same principle.
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