holiday fines

jobbingmusician

I heard of one school where the teachers are now taking their inset days all at one go, in the same week, so that parents can take their little darlings away at that time, out of the main holiday season. Sounds like a good idea to me!

(And yes, I do know that people have more than one child. Tough, if they're not at the same school, but still a net benefit.)

loskie

It's sad how little value folks place on the education provided to their children.
It is actually a very bad lesson to them for future life to be taking them out of school in term time. In the workplace many will have to take holidays when told
Maybe all the childless adults should start up a petition so the THEY DO NOT pay for YOUR children's education.

jackomdj

Our school is doing just that jobbingmusician. Oct half term starts three days earlier so people can book holidays.

meritaten

loskie wrote: »

It's sad how little value folks place on the education provided to their children.
It is actually a very bad lesson to them for future life to be taking them out of school in term time. In the workplace many will have to take holidays when told
Maybe all the childless adults should start up a petition so the THEY DO NOT pay for YOUR children's education.

its sad how little respect education authorities have for 'family time'. a holiday away can teach kids so much - isn't that why schools organise 'trips' for the kids? but if parents do it..............that's NOT allowed.
schools love to organise 'educational trips'. my grandchild has just been on one which my DD went on many years ago - they had fun, they did kayaking and walking up mountains and the packed lunch was always cheese sandwiches (not very nutritious for those with milk allergies)- but, they don't think they learned much. neither of them thought it was worth the cost of the trip - the teachers seemed to enjoy it though.
we can respect education if they gave actual teaching time to the kids. I just don't get 'non teaching time' for the teachers, scuse me? isn't their job to 'teach'? an hour a day where they have 'non-teaching time? and the class is looked after by classroom assistants?
and don't get the time spent on 'charities'. its like every other week it is 'charity'. my DD counted up one terms 'contributions' to Charity - it came to £72! that's a chunk of anyones money - do you give that much in six weeks? but that is what was expected of the kids to bring in.
Sorry - its turned into a rant - but schools seem to have forgotten they are there to EDUCATE our children. not to raise funds for charity or enable them to have fun.

gettingtheresometime

jobbingmusician wrote: »

I heard of one school where the teachers are now taking their inset days all at one go, in the same week, so that parents can take their little darlings away at that time, out of the main holiday season. Sounds like a good idea to me!

(And yes, I do know that people have more than one child. Tough, if they're not at the same school, but still a net benefit.)

They're doing this in a school in South Wales (I think that's the one you are referring to - it seemed to hit the national headlines) - they've got the whole 5 inset days in one week in June next year.

I'm sure that this price hike isn't a new thing but I'd bet my year's salary that my parents never even considered taking my sister and I out of school so they could have a cheaper holiday

Gloomendoom

jackomdj wrote: »

Our school is doing just that jobbingmusician. Oct half term starts three days earlier so people can book holidays.

It takes them three days to book a holiday?

FreeBear

melanzana wrote: »

I time my hols for when the children are AT school. The peace and quiet without screaming kids all round is total bliss.

I'm with you on this. Keep the precious little darlings in school during term time and the parents at work.

Jagraf

I'm not quite sure why parents have any say in removing their children from education. It's the right of a child to be educated, it's not, or shouldn't be, the right of the parent to remove it. I hope the rules get stricter,

Pollycat

meritaten wrote: »

its sad how little respect education authorities have for 'family time'. a holiday away can teach kids so much - isn't that why schools organise 'trips' for the kids? but if parents do it..............that's NOT allowed.
schools love to organise 'educational trips'. my grandchild has just been on one which my DD went on many years ago - they had fun, they did kayaking and walking up mountains and the packed lunch was always cheese sandwiches (not very nutritious for those with milk allergies)- but, they don't think they learned much. neither of them thought it was worth the cost of the trip - the teachers seemed to enjoy it though.
we can respect education if they gave actual teaching time to the kids. I just don't get 'non teaching time' for the teachers, scuse me? isn't their job to 'teach'? an hour a day where they have 'non-teaching time? and the class is looked after by classroom assistants?
and don't get the time spent on 'charities'. its like every other week it is 'charity'. my DD counted up one terms 'contributions' to Charity - it came to £72! that's a chunk of anyones money - do you give that much in six weeks? but that is what was expected of the kids to bring in.
Sorry - its turned into a rant - but schools seem to have forgotten they are there to EDUCATE our children. not to raise funds for charity or enable them to have fun.

I agree. A holiday away can teach kids so much. But as tomtontom points out, a week in an all Inclusive hotel in Benidorm will hardly teach kids anything useful at all.

Indie_Kid

melanzana wrote: »

Hold on a minute. Are you saying that childless people like me will not be able to avail of cheap flights anymore during term time?

Me No Like That At All.... lol

I time my hols for when the children are AT school. The peace and quiet without screaming kids all round is total bliss. Please do not upset that for me. Thanks.

I was really hoping this would be the case when we went to France in June. How wrong I was.:( There were a lot of kids on the plane.