IN regard to parents being fined for taking children on holiday in term time, unless the world has moved on since I started work, as the newest member of staff, holidays were allowed on a strictly seniority basis.

Accordingly, for the first few years at work, my summer holiday could well have been allocated during term-time and often a long way away from the summer.

The only way to get a family holiday sometimes encroached on school terms.

To be fined in such circumstances would have been unthinkable.

PETER J COLLINS, Hinksey Hill, Oxford