New Broom Sweeps Clean?

Now that Michael Gove has been sacked from the Education Cabinet, perhaps his daft idea of fixed penalties for parents taking their children on term time holidays can be trashed too?

Fixed penalty notices for an average family with 3 children can amount to £720, just for taking them out of school for a few days during school time; compare this with other fixed penalty notices. The fixed penalty notice for shoplifting can often be £100, the same for being drunk and disorderly in public and the same £100 fine for use of motor vehicle without a MOT test certificate. Raising children is a very serious matter, but holidays can be very educational; so why our government thinks that parents should be punished more severely than thieves and drunks is beyond me.