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Is It Ok To Damage Education For Holidays?
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i know the holday firms take the *** but surely education is more imprtanat than a jolly? Would you take your saucepans on holiday in term time?
i know the holday firms take the *** but surely education is more imprtanat than a jolly? Would you take your saucepans on holiday in term time?
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I really dont get why people get in such a 2 and 8 about this.
If you move the holiday dates the fridges running the holiday gaffs will simply up shove up the cost outside school holiday's by a monkey so we all get clobbered.
Plus they would loose the grey holidaymaker who can't stand screaming saucepans around them so that another ton apiece.
If you move the holiday dates the fridges running the holiday gaffs will simply up shove up the cost outside school holiday's by a monkey so we all get clobbered.
Plus they would loose the grey holidaymaker who can't stand screaming saucepans around them so that another ton apiece.
//the travel companies are using school holiday pricing to subsidise the rest of the year.//
But are they? Summer is prime time whatever, if you want to go somewhere prime time you pay for it.
Hotels and planes have to be run all year round, I'm sure the companies would love to price it the same all year but who goes in Winter?
But are they? Summer is prime time whatever, if you want to go somewhere prime time you pay for it.
Hotels and planes have to be run all year round, I'm sure the companies would love to price it the same all year but who goes in Winter?
I think the "can't afford it" excuse is totally bogus. My parents were poorer than most and I was never taken on holiday in term time. School summer holidays were long enough as they were, and a caravan hire for the week in a uk resort was not that expensive once a year.
That pointed out, as folk mention, a week out of school is not going to ruin anyone's education as long as specific vital times are avoided.
That pointed out, as folk mention, a week out of school is not going to ruin anyone's education as long as specific vital times are avoided.
All our 'holidays' as children were taken in the holidays, mostly it was day trips. My second daughter once had 2 days off (Fri. & Mon.) because her father was running in the Paris half-marathon and she was approaching French GCSE (there is a segment on Paris). She accompanied him, learned a bit about Paris and improved her French. That is, I think, acceptable and the Head agreed.
As a teacher, the complexities involved with children taking time off are, I assure you, huge. The curriculum is broken down into syllabuses; which are broken-down into smaller units; which are broken down into even smaller units; which are broken-down into (you've guessed it!) individual lesson content.
An extreme example (which is one I have personal knowledge of) was a Pakistani girl (12 years old) who had been in the UK for almost 2 years, but whose reading age in English was 7 and a bit - we had instigated intensive tuition since she arrived some 8 mths. previously and got her going. (Her family were fairly recent arrivals, spoke no English and she could manage fine in the community she lived in.)
She did not arrive for my intensive 1-to-1 sessions in September and eventually we discovered that she was back in Pakistan. Her parents had taken her back 'for a holiday' before the end of year and she finally appeared towards the end of October. I immediately tested her reading age and she did not even register on the scale at 5 years old.
This is the sort of thing that makes it a farce. Children must be in school. Sorry if you have to have camping holidays as we had to do. Lessons don't get taught twice!
As a teacher, the complexities involved with children taking time off are, I assure you, huge. The curriculum is broken down into syllabuses; which are broken-down into smaller units; which are broken down into even smaller units; which are broken-down into (you've guessed it!) individual lesson content.
An extreme example (which is one I have personal knowledge of) was a Pakistani girl (12 years old) who had been in the UK for almost 2 years, but whose reading age in English was 7 and a bit - we had instigated intensive tuition since she arrived some 8 mths. previously and got her going. (Her family were fairly recent arrivals, spoke no English and she could manage fine in the community she lived in.)
She did not arrive for my intensive 1-to-1 sessions in September and eventually we discovered that she was back in Pakistan. Her parents had taken her back 'for a holiday' before the end of year and she finally appeared towards the end of October. I immediately tested her reading age and she did not even register on the scale at 5 years old.
This is the sort of thing that makes it a farce. Children must be in school. Sorry if you have to have camping holidays as we had to do. Lessons don't get taught twice!
Jourdain, that's one specific example and I expect that child would have gone on an extended holiday to Pakistan regardless of the rules.
I'm an ex-secondary teacher and I honestly believe that for a student with good attendance who is achieving their potential (regardless of how low or high that might be) should be allowed time off to go on a family holiday, a holiday that they might not go on otherwise - childhood is short and memories are precious. I have worked with a number of teachers who seem to have a sour grapes attitude towards term time holidays.
I'm an ex-secondary teacher and I honestly believe that for a student with good attendance who is achieving their potential (regardless of how low or high that might be) should be allowed time off to go on a family holiday, a holiday that they might not go on otherwise - childhood is short and memories are precious. I have worked with a number of teachers who seem to have a sour grapes attitude towards term time holidays.
Has anyone mentioned the added burden to teachers. I am sometimes expected to prepare additional notes and work for the students who miss the learning from the lessons because they're on a beach somewhere, and then i need to help them catch up when they get back so they don't slow down subsequent lessons by saying "don't get it...."
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