Cheek of teachers and rich MPs trying to stop holiday breaks for families (From Daily Echo)
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Cheek of teachers and rich MPs trying to stop holiday breaks for families
11:34pm Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in Editor Ian Murray's Blog
By Ian Murray, Editor-in-chief
Cheek of teachers and rich MPs trying to stop holiday breaks for families
The government says it is considering clamping down on parents who take their children out of school for holidays during term time.
Not on they say. Parents - naughty, naughty, parents - who are struggling to make ends meet thanks to the idiocy of successive governments in running the British economy - shouldn't try to save pennies and take a week or two out of term time when children should be in class learning.
It matters so much that children spend every waking minute they can being taught by those dedicated teachers who - apart from the days they take when they feel like it to send children home so that hard working parents have to take time off and lose money to look after them while they under go training (eh?)- are always there in class.
That will be the teachers and lecturers who get three times as much holiday as everyone else then.
Why do I think that this is more about teachers being envious that parents with jobs that only get five weeks holiday are saving a bit of cash taking breaks at times poor teachers cannot?
Or perhaps I am just being bitter - which is silly really, as my own children, who we took out of school in term time every year of their school lives for holidays and who did very well, are now old enough not to be affected by this draconian, spiteful move by a ruling class that is so rich it doesn't blink an eye at the cost of its annual holiday to the Maldives and lost touch with normal working folk long, long ago.
It doesn't bother me, so why worry.
Comments(7)
tommmmy555
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2:06pm Thu 23 Feb 12
What dribble,
I lived with a teacher for years and not once did he fail to be home by half three.
In his own view he worked very little hours and had massive amounts of holiday for his wage.
Sure
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3:28pm Thu 23 Feb 12
Folkestone Saint
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4:34pm Thu 23 Feb 12
CMFG Lover
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6:05pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Saint Bertie
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7:34am Sat 25 Feb 12
My sons school, which is ofsted outstanding, gives pupils an office day once a term for good behaviour. In other words they take them out of lessons to stuff envelopes etc...
Then there is the final week of term where in most lessons they watch films, and the daytrip to the theatre or theme park as a reward for 100% attendance. Dare I also mention what happens when we get the smallest amount of snow.
I never take my kids out of school for holidays but think the schools need to take a good look at themselves before they start chastising those that do.
tommmmy555
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3:35pm Mon 27 Feb 12
There is a fundamental flaw in the system or their methods if they cannot achieve the work they are paid to do, in the time they are paid to do it.
Any extra work or hours that they are not paid for should be reported to their union if they feel that it is unjust - after all that is what unions are for.
Sure says...
10:33am Thu 23 Feb 12
Ask a teacher what their contracted hours are and you will get a glazed look. Ask them when overtime kicks in and they will laugh.
There may be a bit of envy by teachers when they would like to go home and switch off to enjoy normal family life like many other parents can do.
Please don't pretend you know what you are talking about as you are the editor of the largest local newspaper in the south and people, believe it or not, will accept your words as fact when, actually you haven't got a clue!!!