Nearly four million school days in England were missed last spring and autumn because parents took children out of school to go on holiday.
The fire service has blamed the increase in fires on youngsters on holiday from school and has urged parents to be vigilant.
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service has dealt with more than 50 deliberate grass and gorse fires over the past two weeks and has blamed the increase on youngsters on holiday from school.
As a precocious 14-year-old on holiday from school in England, young Leacock filmed the life story of a banana, all the way from dry soil to boxed crate, edited the results Russian-style with astonishing brio and sent them to Robert Flaherty, the leading American documentary maker of the day.
The pastor takes me to a poor area of Dallas called Oak Cliff, where he has been providing free food for the children while they are on holiday over the summer and missing school meals.
Issuing fines is one of the last resorts for schools to deal with absence problems, including parents who take their child on holiday during term time without permission from the school.
School staff and trustees visited the centre when the resident caretakers were on holiday, but travel expenses were also claimed for their family members to accompany them.
According to focus-group studies, pay-day customers are most likely to use the cash for car and home repairs, Christmas shopping, and school expenses, although inevitably some also use the money to go on holiday.
In March EFE approached the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business and convinced several of its faculty to put their spring holiday plans on hold.
At Harvest Prep the school year is continuous, with short and relatively frequent bursts of holiday, because that keeps learning on track and kids out of trouble.
It also said local authorities were now taking a "strong view" on absence and it welcomed "their efforts to stop parents taking their children out of school for holiday".
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The government would do better to look at ways of staggering the school terms throughout the country and imposing restrictions on the discrepancies between the lowest and highest prices charged by the holiday countries than threats of fines to the parents and expulsions to the pupils.
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