A teacher has questioned how parents would react if their children's teachers took time off during term for a cheaper holiday, pointing out that teachers also have families and face the high cost of holidays outside school terms.
This perspective follows a broad consensus among readers that fines for term-time holidays are unpopular and ineffective. Separately, Nick Coupland referenced research from the universities of Strathclyde and Dundee. This research reportedly found that absences for family holidays did not affect academic achievement at the end of compulsory secondary schooling, unlike other forms of absence such as truancy or sickness.