Mum-of-10 raging as she realises EXTRA step she has to take when her kids are sick to avoid getting hefty school fines

A MUM-OF-10 has been near raging aft realising the extra, time-consuming measurement she has to instrumentality if her kids are sick.

Vanessa explained that all her children person "coughs and colds", with illnesses doing the rounds and leaving radical feeling "icky".

But owed to the caller authorities rules, immoderate kid who is kept location from school will person to manus successful a GP missive authorising the lack successful bid to debar getting fined.

"How are we expected to get a GP assignment for a acold and a cough that doesn't necessitate a GP appointment?" she said.

"I mean if you marque a GP assignment present for thing that's non-urgent, you're looking astatine astir six weeks.

"So by the clip you get a letter, you get your GP assignment for your letter, your child's not sick anymore.

"I'm conscionable truly baffled by it all. to beryllium honest!"

So, successful bid to debar getting a fine, parents are feeling forced to nonstop their kids into school when they're "under the weather".

"And past if the schoolhouse decides that they shouldn't beryllium successful school, they tin nonstop them home," Vanessa continued.

"And past the GP enactment won't beryllium required.

"Now that conscionable doesn't marque consciousness to me. So arsenic parents, we can't marque the determination without jumping done a cardinal hoops."

While she ended up sending the kids into school, Vanessa added she'd beryllium fuming if she got a telephone telephone to travel and prime them up due to the fact that they were sick.

"Why bash they get to marque the determination but not america arsenic parents oregon guardians?" she questioned.

"It conscionable feels very, precise backwards.

"I'm truly disquieted astir it and it's really truly frustrating that america arsenic parents, arsenic guardians, arsenic radical that nonstop our children into a schoolhouse setting, we're each conscionable going on with it and I'm a small spot baffled by it."

Vanessa besides said she feels the aforesaid arsenic parents being fined for taking their kids retired of schoolhouse to spell connected holiday.

"Holidays are truthful enriching to a child's life," she insisted.

"They really, truly are.

"They supply much acquisition than you tin larn successful a classroom.

"Whether you're going to beryllium successful Spain connected a sunbed oregon whether you're going to your section campsite, I consciousness similar they're learning experiences, they're learning skills, they're learning astir antithetic areas.

"You know, societal skills, gathering caller people, trying antithetic foods, antithetic cultures."

Concluding, Vanessa admitted she's "really, truly baffled by the world" astatine the moment, and called it a "really bittersweet place".

"And that's not adjacent mentioning that our GP is already struggling, and present the schoolhouse privation to nonstop america for insignificant illnesses to get a letter!"

Individual schools acceptable their ain policies regarding authorised oregon unauthorised absences from school, based connected authorities guidelines.