Kids hols during termtime - 10 days max ?

gregg1

black-saturn wrote:

And is that counted as part of the 10 day allowance?

well my OH is certainly not on strike next Tuesday. Teachers are doing a damn good job in extremely difficult circumstances - I cannot believe the flack they are getting on this thread. Before you have a go why don't you try spending a week teaching in an inner city school!

Penny-Pincher!!

Our DD's school is still open.

PP
xx

gregg1

Rachie_B wrote:

i agree!!


its like anything ,people get on their high horses and yet they have no right to judge : some people do it (and will continue to do so ) and some just wont

Well, I think a teacher who has the responsibility of sorting out the problems very often created by kids being taken out of school has every right "to judge" seeing as they are the ones who will be held to account when the "little darlings" have difficulty catching up (and I know not all of them fall behind but an awful lot of em do as a direct result of loosing time for holidays!).

jonesMUFCforever

gregg1 wrote:

well my OH is certainly not on strike next Tuesday. Teachers are doing a damn good job in extremely difficult circumstances - I cannot believe the flack they are getting on this thread. Before you have a go why don't you try spending a week teaching in an inner city school!

If its that bad why does your other half not just leave and get a job in Tesco or suchlike?
Could it be that the salary and other benefits and bloody good pension scheme means at the end of the day that it is worthwhile.

hammy_the_hammer

ejones999 wrote:

If its that bad why does your other half not just leave and get a job in Tesco or suchlike?
Could it be that the salary and other benefits and bloody good pension scheme means at the end of the day that it is worthwhile.

maybe they feel that they can give back something to society by teaching kids . why do people do a lot of vocations ? money isn't always the overriding factor.
the pension scheme would be the one that was contractual and that they pay into.
it must be frustrating though when people take the kids out of their classes and possibly they see them failing to achive what they could by not missing lessons.
does missing school have any advantages academically to the child ?

hammy_the_hammer

ejones999 wrote:

How many teachers will be on strike next tuesday??

None ....zilch

gibson123

The strike is not by teachers it is all other public sector workers, teachers have different pay agreements, the schools that are shut - due to the janitors, cleaning staff and cooks being out on strike. The unions did not tell the schools until Friday, so the school may not have had a chance to inform parents yet.

rdwarr

The ignorance of some of the posters on this thread is almost unbelievable! I can only conclude that your parents regularly took YOU out of school during term time.
It is an undisputed fact that your children's education will suffer if you do this. Ten days off in years 9, 10 or 11 is about 1 GCSE grade. I'm a Governor - I've seen the stats.
We had one woman complaining that the head wouldn't sign off a long holiday. Her daughter's education didn't matter as she "just wanted to work in a beauty salon". Some people here seem to have the same contempt for their kids.
If a bit of cheap sun is more important to you than your children's future career then that's fine. But think long and hard about it first - you at least owe them that.

TurnaroundSue

"If a bit of cheap sun is more important to you than your children's future career then that's fine. But think long and hard about it first - you at least owe them that".

Look at my previous thread before you tar ALL parents with the same brush who take their kids out of school - to me having quality family time is EQUALLY as important as their education - once kids grow up and leave home, you cannot get their childhood back and those family holidays, but you can still go onto further education and do re-sits. Now I am not saying this lightly, but it is a fact childhood only comes along once, where you have all your life to learn.

By the way, I do NOT blame the teachers for the 10 day rule - they are just following this nanny state government that we have in charge!!!

wilburpig

I work as a teacher in a London primary school. As the previous poster said, the strike is by UNISON, who represent our teaching assistants and lunch staff, so we are unable to open the school to children due to unlawful staff to pupil ratio. However, all non UNISON staff will be in school working, so it's not a day off.

As with all strikes, the striking staff will lose a day's pay too, and teaching assistants are on a much lower salary than teachers, so many will find themselves short this month.