Term Time Holidays???

onlyroz

johnnyl wrote: »

Incidentally, it isnt a right of yours to choose for others.

I hope you say the same to the Education Welfare Officer when he comes knocking.

zagfles

FBaby wrote: »

But £1100 for many families is much more than what they can afford so even if you can find some better deals many families can ONLY afford the term time prices.

As I remember packages even in term time were considerably more than £1100 for 4, and DIY in term time wouldn't have been much cheaper than we paid, the flight prices were about the same before and after the Easter hols and the hotel price didn't change at Easter.

We even negotiated a discount on the advertised hotel price as we were staying 10 nights, I suppose the discount could have been bigger outside the Easter hols, but probably not, as apparently it was no busier there at Easter than before/afterwards. (Think everyone goes to Rome at Easter )

That was just an example though - for cheaper hols we've had holidays in the UK on the south coast for around £200 at Easter, last Easter we went to the IOW for just over £300 inc ferry crossings.

Yes you're unlikely to get the very cheapest deals in the school hols, but you get people taking their kids out of school and still paying around £400pp for a package, when a similar DIY holiday in the school hols could be cheaper.

onlyroz

annie1975 wrote: »

Well theres nothing in Britain is there,only rain,rain,and more rain.

I've had some fantastic UK-based holidays at various times of the year.

themull1

I've taken my kids out of school before, we get 10 days authorised absence. I think if the government were that bothered about taking kids out of school, they would have done what they promised years ago, take the premium off school holiday breaks.

Ada_Doom

Completely off topic, but I think this might be the dullest thread I have ever read *passive aggressive smiley face*

Welshwoofs

Ada_Doom wrote: »

Completely off topic, but I think this might be the dullest thread I have ever read *passive aggressive smiley face*

You've obviously never read the thread about cleaning over on the oldstyle money saving board

Zone based cleaning....it's all about zone based cleaning.

Ada_Doom

Is that the fly lady thread? I dipped in once out of curiosity, it freaked me out a bit. What ever happend to spritzing a bit of Febreeze in your corners and hoping for the best?

johnnyl

onlyroz wrote: »

I hope you say the same to the Education Welfare Officer when he comes knocking.

I dont think the EWO will want to hear me saying that it isnt any business of onlyroz.

moomoomama27

Personally I wouldn't. I work in a school and see how hard it is for the children (primary age) to miss as much as 10 days schooling. They never really catch up, and often fall behind if they are mid way through a topic.

I've never taken mine out in term time. At my childrens school, there is no unauthorised absence, and the fine if £50 per parent, per school week missed.

moomoomama27

dizziblonde wrote: »

When I was a teacher I'll be honest - I actually didn't give a stuff if you'd decided pulling your kids out for 2 weeks to bake on a beach in Lanzagrotty was what you wanted to do to be honest. Your kids - your choice - you pick up the pieces later on in life if there's an impact. You might have a battle with the head, or the school office or attendance officer - I always just worked with whatever was in the register and put ticks or circles in the requisite places (ok, so if we'd had a bank holiday or whatever meaning we didn't have a full school week - I usually put ticks or circles in the wrong places but still...)

What I was NOT prepared to do was to sit there and "just give us the worksheets" in advance when lessons weren't planned in that much detail for weeks ahead (like lots I knew the general objectives I was covering, but what would be done when would always be adapted depending on how the previous day's lesson had gone, and I tried to avoid death by worksheet anyway), especially knowing they'd be ignored for the entire holiday and done in 10 minutes the night before and be utterly meaningless anyway (especially without the lesson input going with them). Funnily suggestions of positive things that could be done - that would have required parental effort were always met with utter horror. Hell, I'd keep the work covered retrospectively and send it home if needed - but I wasn't going to jump through hoops to do it in advance - especially not when toward the ends of terms you could have one kid off for a week, then another pair, then a different child again and never have a full class for weeks.

What I also was never prepared to do was to interrupt the class lesson when the kid got back and wailed all the way through "I wasn't here for this bit" - I'd pull them to the side after I'd explained things to the whole class and go over the missing bits quickly (and I'd have told them I'd do it this way in advance too) - but quite often the little cherub would expect the entire 2 weeks to be re-done for their convenience immediately... sorry, but no, not when there are 29 other kids there who are waiting to move ON from work covered.

Now you can all go and flame THAT as an example of bad teacher attitude, someone not accepting their entire soul is owned by an individual parent, no doubt distort it into neglect/child abuse or whatever else ridiculously sensationalist spot of handwringing you want to... I've got my MSE Teacher-Bash Bingo Card (TM) ready and printed for you all... I think we're missing "I'm glad you don't teach MY children" (trust me - some of the attitudes and usual suspects on here - the feeling's often mutual) for the full house and free sparkly pen.

As for the ringing in sick thing - trust me your child will drop you in it within 10 minutes of returning to school!

Wonderful post! Couldn't agree more