Children Leave School, Police Stop Parents

Early vacations do not seem strange, but in Germany the law forces parents to take their children to school, while home education is banned. German media record that police immediately banned the 10 families with whom children traveled and questioned them.

The event took place at the airport in Memmingen, and it seems that parents were trying to avoid the peak of the holiday season when the latter cost even more. After the details were discovered, German police allowed families to continue their journey, but not without sending a detailed report to the educational authorities in Bavari.

Airport police said families had booked the holidays and that it would be unreasonable to send them back, despite their mistakes. However, families will provide clarifications to their children's unjustified lack of school in education authorities when they return from vacation and if clarification is not satisfactory, the fine amounts to up to 10,000 euros.

The school is something that is being treated very seriously by authorities in Germany, and last year there were over 5600 cases of parents fined for unreasonable absences of their children at school, which generated over 618 000 euros for local authorities.