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Originally Posted by macafee2
parents can take their children out in school time as long as the teacher can take their holiday in term time. The child will miss lessons and so when the teacher takes their holiday there will be no replacement teacher. 
I suspect the No1 reason parents take their children out of school for holidays is cost. Whilst I accept there will be times when the parents cant get time off in school holidays, service personnel returning from tour of duty for example I do feel that holidays should not be during term time.
macafee2 |
Hi Ian - that analogy only works if both sets of workers have the same amount of holiday. I suffered all my parental working life from trying to battle to get my 4 weeks and later 5 weeks to coincide with the academic school holidays.
The U.K. is not moving towards the modular basis of education used in more forward thinking Nations.
Why don’t we have our teaching staff working to the same sort of contracts as others?
If we deem our children to only need circa 40 weeks tuition time out of 52 - why do those 40 have to be at set times?
Why don’t we allow our children to take time out with their families and commit to those 40 weeks on a modular basis?
Other countries work this system well
If we scrapped the archaic existing 3 terms with a 6 week summer break with 2 weeks at both Easter and Christmas and 3 half term time breaks of a week each - plus up to 5 inset days - actually reduces a calendar year from 52 weeks to as little as 38 weeks.
If any thing - surely those that have 14 weeks (as opposed to those who have 5 weeks and no control of when those 5 are allocated to them) could be a little more fexible and forthcoming as to family holidays.