Gemma McGee was fined £10 per day after 15-year-old Kacey Jackson was absent from Basildon Academies on six occasions between September and March.
After failing to pay the charges Essex County Council appointed a debt management company to collect the cash.
Fame at last, Gemma! *scans TV schedules for next episode of 'Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away!'*
Ms McGee (Ed: quelle surprise!) said: “I can’t appeal the case as they took it to bailiffs and they are threatening to remove my stuff.
“They wanted £210 straight up payment then £70 something a week. They want it all paid within seven weeks.
“If I break the arrangement, they will send out bailiffs. I told them the payments will see us really struggle but they didn’t want to know.
“If I don’t pay up, my costs will go up even more. Kacey’s attendance isn’t bad, which is why I refused to pay.
“She was off school with bugs and I didn’t think I needed to get a doctor’s note for that.”
What sort of 'bugs'? Food poisoning? Colds?
The fine means Ms McGee can no longer afford to pay for her daughter to go on a school trip to Belgium.
She said: “Kacey feels really bad - she feels she has to go to school when she’s ill now.”
She does, yes. It'll be good practice for the world of work, should she ever enter it.
Kelly Bush, of Dunton Wayletts, is another parent who has been fined after 12-year-old daughter Melissa missed six days through illness.
She said: “It’s ridiculous, I’ve never known anything like it – she’s at school, not at work.
“The doctor was based over in Pitsea so I wasn’t going to drag Melissa all the way over there when she was unwell.
“It should be down to me to decide if my daughter is too ill to go to school.”
It isn't.
Does "bugs" = "pubic lice"?
ReplyDeleteBRING me my tweezers and hand me the jewellers loupe, wench , for I need to restring my violin!
ReplyDeleteDoes it really matter if children don't go to school?
ReplyDelete@okjoe
ReplyDeleteJudging by the results achieved with those who do attend school/leftie indoctrination unit, it might seem that it is a place best avoided these days. However, attendance is a legal requirement.
Does the same apply if middle class parents take Tarquin out of school to go on holiday?
ReplyDeleteBugs= crabs. Easily fixed with a mixture of paraffin and DDT. By the way, the powers of DDT are much underrated. Wonderful stuff, kills everything and leaves a waste land. And much cheaper and less 'burny' than napalm.
ReplyDelete@Flax
ReplyDeleteBut napalm's more fun - especially when applied to the nether regions of scrotes.
"Does "bugs" = "pubic lice"?"
ReplyDeleteEeeeewwww!
"BRING me my tweezers and hand me the jewellers loupe, wench , for I need to restring my violin!"
:D
"Does it really matter if children don't go to school?"
To society? Yes.
"Does the same apply if middle class parents take Tarquin out of school to go on holiday? "
There's plenty of evidence it does. One quite famous case in Brighton last year. He lost, too.