Couple Hits With 1000 Pounds Penalty, Says “People Who Make These Laws Don’t Live In The Real World”

In Britain Yesterday, Stewart Sutherland and his wife Natasha admitted three counts of failing to ensure their children attended school for six days in September last year.

The couple took their children Sian, 13, Keane, six, and Rhiannon, on holiday to Rhodes, Greece. They returned home from the week-long break to Rhodes – their first family holiday in five years – to find they had been fined £360. This was soon doubled to £720 because they did not pay up quickly enough.

According to British new rules, headteachers are not obliged to give pupils leave during term time unless in ‘exceptional circumstances’.

The case went to a magistrates court yesterday where the Sutherlands were forced to enter a guilty plea. Their fine was amended to £630 with £300 costs and a £63 victim surcharge.

The father of three said after the court, “people who made these laws don’t live in the real world”.

Will this happen in Nigeria? Or rather the question should be; will Nigerian schools ever resume?