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With family holidays becoming increasingly expensive, there are growing calls to relax the rules around taking children out of school during term time. We went out to a West Midlands town to find out what parents and residents really think.
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00:00Yeah, I've just been looking into a holiday and it costs £200 more to go in school times but if I take him out of school it costs at least £300 doing a fine. So I physically can't go on holiday. It's just not, can't do it.
00:20Well I do, yeah. There's one or two things you can do. You can either stagger the school holidays or the school give parents a bit of a break so they can take the kids on holiday because it's expensive times and cheaper times. And where we are now, this day and age, everybody's after a bargain.
00:41There's cheaper holidays to be had in term time rather than holiday time. So, yeah, it would be better if they could stagger them out a little.
00:53Do you feel sorry for families who can't afford a break?
00:55Yeah, I do, yeah, yeah. I think everybody needs a holiday, so, yeah.
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