Holiday Price hikes in school holidays

mcfisco

aaroncaz wrote: »

Considering the OPs child s only 6 years old, I hardly think a holiday would deprive them of their education! Get real!! The OP was asking ppls opinion on holiday costs..... why should ppl who work hard have to pay more?

I don't understand your [or the OPs] reference to working hard, could you explain?
Is it just the latest sound bite that you hear all those politicians spouting, so it gets used for any argument about cost now?

louby40

phatbear wrote: »

cant you get some kind of help from the people who forced you to become a teacher and have kids?

Can you get some sort of help for being so rude.

I have 2 children and 2 step children.

When I trained to become a teacher 20 years ago, to educate the country's children I wasn't really thinking about how much holidays would cost me in the future. No one forced me, I did it out of choice!

I also didn't know that I would divorce and end up with 2 step-children.

Thus is life.

phatbear

louby40 wrote: »

Can you get some sort of help for being so rude.

I have 2 children and 2 step children.

When I trained to become a teacher 20 years ago, to educate the country's children I wasn't really thinking about how much holidays would cost me in the future. No one forced me, I did it out of choice!

I also didn't know that I would divorce and end up with 2 step-children.

Thus is life.

If you define rude as not agreeing with you then im good thanks.

The point i was trying to make is you are a teacher and most people would be very happy with the amount of leave you get, and the offset of that is the restrictions placed on you when you can take leave and therefore the increased price of holidays.

As several people have said its all a matter of supply and demand and if you, or anyone else doesn't like it, then im afraid to say its tough after all no one forces you to have a holiday and im sure there are plenty of people who are enviable of you being in the position to be considering taking 4 young'uns on holiday.

[Deleted User]

rd350lc wrote: »

After receiving a letter from my 6 year old's school ,stating that fines would be imposed for taking children out of school in term time for holidays in which married couples pay double (really promoting Camerons family values !) it has now ,more than ever got me thinking that the Holiday companies are profiteering off of the back of hard working families and that the government should do something to level the playing field about this situation ,obviously if charges were not so steep at the school holidays this would never be an issue . Basically all my wife and I work hard all year for on small wages is to give our kids a holiday once a year, it looks like the government doesn't want us to have that now . I'm interested to know peoples' views on this , is it just me ?

Welcome to capitalism.

Any successful business is run on the principle of supply and demand - school holidays happen to be the busiest time for holiday companies ( the word holiday is a bit of a giveaway ) so that's when they charge their steepest rates.

The same principle applies with hotels, restaurants etc.

It's not the government's fault, it's not your school's fault for levying fines and it's not the holiday companies' fault for seeking to maximise profits for their shareholders.

Besides, there are good deals to be found everywhere if you look hard enough rather than looking for someone to blame.

You are, I'm afraid, suffering from the same misguided notion of entitlement rather than self-help that pervades modern Britain.

rd350lc_2

Deleted_User wrote: »

Welcome to capitalism.

Any successful business is run on the principle of supply and demand - school holidays happen to be the busiest time for holiday companies ( the word holiday is a bit of a giveaway ) so that's when they charge their steepest rates.

The same principle applies with hotels, restaurants etc.

It's not the government's fault, it's not your school's fault for levying fines and it's not the holiday companies' fault for seeking to maximise profits for their shareholders.

Besides, there are good deals to be found everywhere if you look hard enough rather than looking for someone to blame.

You are, I'm afraid, suffering from the same misguided notion of entitlement rather than self-help that pervades modern Britain.

And thats why if enough people sign a goverment petition that is currently running ,the people that run our lands will look into doing something to help families out ,obviously i'm not the only one that thinks this way :T

jacques_chirac

rd350lc wrote: »

And thats why if enough people sign a goverment petition that is currently running ,the people that run our lands will look into doing something to help families out ,obviously i'm not the only one that thinks this way :T

They'll do absolutely nothing about it, and why should they? Do you not think the govt have more important things to deal with?

peachyprice

rd350lc wrote: »

And thats why if enough people sign a goverment petition that is currently running ,the people that run our lands will look into doing something to help families out ,obviously i'm not the only one that thinks this way :T

How about you read some of the advice on this site and help YOURSELF out instead of expecting the government to do it for you.

You epitomise the reason that travel companies DO charge so much for packages during school holidays, pure laziness.

duchy

I started work in the travel business as my Saturday job in 1972 (Dad owned a travel agency) and exactly the same complaining and grumbling went on from parents and teachers back then. Nothing has changed except more people feel "entitled" to an annual holiday abroad.

The point with teachers is that no matter how hard done by they feel to have to mark work, lesson plan etc.... if you add up the time they spend over a year it balances out to the same amount of time spent by most people in graduate positions in the private sector . Both work more than their contracted hours -on a daily basis the private sector workers work fewer hours with less after work/weekend hours as routine ( but will still happen on occasion) but don't have the off-set of longer holidays. Even if a teacher spends time in the holidays lesson planning (and unless they are QTS or taking on a new subject or age group it's a matter of revision rather than the vastly more time consuming writing the plan from scratch) for two weeks -at home. at their own pace and timetable it still equates to the same actual working hours - It's the spread of hours that is different- and often resented by partners who work a more traditional work pattern. Most teachers are still graduates who have no experience of working at the same level in other occupations so their perception of what other people work isn't always accurate and they see themselves as hard done by. Teaching isn't easy -but neither are many other occupations and teachers sometimes don't see how much of a perk being able to schedule their own preperation time is compared with other jobs where that flexibility doesn't exist.

pelirocco

Holiday prices dont go up in scholl holidays , they go down outside of them .

But slightly off topic , my grandchildrens school were given (? we think ) tickets for the Man u v Sunderland cup game , they pulled names out of a hat and took some of the older children to watch , plus teachers , one of them was my GD's teacher( her year wasnt even selected for the draw) they left the school around lunchtime . So how is it ok for them to miss schooling for this ?

dzug1

rd350lc wrote: »

And thats why if enough people sign a goverment petition that is currently running ,the people that run our lands will look into doing something to help families out ,obviously i'm not the only one that thinks this way :T

You poor demented fool - or does that smilie indicate tongue in cheek?:rotfl: