What's the fuss about. Apparently the latest 'bad example' of kids missing school is one where the father is a school governor. Well, really! How outrageous - NOT. According to some outraged parents, there's an allegation of double standards and unfairness. Actually, Paul Lawton and his wife (for the first time since their wedding) went abroad and they of course took with them their four younger children and their 13-year-old daughter. Oh dear, the naughty people picked term time, and have had to pay £400 because the 13-year-old missed some school. The daft system that forced parents to work to impossible conditions or be fined has started to throw up examples for us all to analyse.
Mr Lawton and his wife paid £1200 for the flights and transfers, rather less than the cost that would have applied during school holidays - £4800 less to be exact. So, even with a £400 fine, he's still £4400 better off. So why the fuck are there moans and groans from self righteous people (and particularly other parents) who all had the choice to do the same thing? Sour grapes, envy and of course the national pastime of "being fucking offended". Mind your own business, you tossers.
If there is a penalty system in place for anything at all, and as a result of a transgression a fine is applied in line with said system, then that is the end of it. If I speed at 40mph in a 30mph zones, I'll probably get three points on my licence and a £60 fine. If I mug an old lady but in mitigation claim to be high on drugs, and/or drunk, or perhaps convince the magistrate of my 'good character', then off course I'll get 17 minutes community service. These are the rules and systems, as we all know. Therefore, if any parent wants to allow their child to miss a bit of school, then the 'fine' being imposed is the end of it. It is no good anyone whinging about the actions of those who break the rules if the paying of the appropriate fine doesn't bring the matter to an end. If there's a will to raise the fine to act as a deterrent, then that's really the only way the moaners can do much about it.
They had better start campaigning then, although there seem to be rather more people campaigning to get the cost of holidays, especially foreign ones, reduced during the school holidays, so that there is no need for people to take kids out of school. The government is being asked to do something about levelling costs, so it's unlikely to be able to at the same time raise fines as a way to make parents avoid term-time holidays, as that would really be kicking everyone in the teeth. The fact is, in school holidays the costs will always be higher, period. If the penalty for skipping school is below those extra costs, then there will be many more parents copying Mr Lawson, and Stuart and Natasha Sutherland who were also fined recently (they too were also still better off).
What's shit is that where a single parent would receive a fine, BOTH parents would be fined where the child missing school had two parents! That's fucking discrimination for a start! This is quite simply another fucking cunting bollocking tax on those struggling, and earning an average wage. Screwing those in work who finally get a chance to have a break is hardly helping anyone! Anyone who is a shit parent, whose kids possibly skip school quite often, and who maybe chooses to allow or even encourage offspring to miss school will most certainly not be bothered, particularly if they are on benefits. Maybe the courts will soon be full of people offering to pay 50p per week to clear the fine associated with the week's trip to Weymouth, or their kids' three hours in the amusement arcade in the high street.
The people who pay for anything are those with money, who work hard to get it. Anyone at the bottom simply gets away with stuff, and any top earners don't give a flying fuck anyway.
I wonder if the parents of the two runaway teenagers (the ones who ended up in the Dominican Republic) will be ordered to pay fines. In theory, why the fuck not? The whole system is daft. I strongly urge all parents who want to spend time abroad in term time to simply say that "little billy was ill". It is a parent's right to take a child out of school if he's unwell, and what the illness is can be no fucking business of anyone else. I reckon that a child suffering mild depression might well benefit from a week in Portugal.
...
No comments:
Post a Comment