They would learn. However, there is none so spiteful as the public sector spurned.
A man at the centre of a High Court legal battle for taking his children on school term-time holidays has been fined over a second trip.
Jonathan Platt successfully contested a fine from Isle of Wight Council for taking his young daughter on a family holiday to Florida in April 2015.
He said he had received a new £60 fine after taking her to Lapland with other family members.
The council said it would not comment on individual cases.
Sigh… Having wasted council tax payers’ money persecuting this man and losing, they are determined to go through the whole charade again. Their behaviour was clearly unlawful, but despite doing the sensible thing and belaying their policy of persecuting parents as they should…
A council spokesman said it would “continue to implement the government’s current statutory guidance around attendance, subject to the further clarity that it is seeking from the High Court on this point of law”.
The point of law is pretty clear to anyone and everyone except the spiteful little bureaucrats of the Council, who, if they had an ounce of integrity would have accepted the original verdict rather than drag the whole thing to appeal. I do hope they are put in their place a second time. And costs should not come from the taxpayers, they should come from the pockets of the people who are perpetrating this policy despite a court case casting doubt upon its lawfulness.
This is a classic case of how the state treats its employers and masters.
Dear Mr Longrider
A six year old child is going to learn far more from a trip abroad than it would from the PC pap being served in the modern primary school.
Perhaps that is what they are worried about.
Government has no business in the education of any child.
DP