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Should parents take the family holiday during school term time?
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What is the solution to this annual problem?
Couldn't the tour operators be forced to level out their prices throughout the year, instead of them hiking up their prices during school holidays?
Perhaps one or two could try, and then maybe the others would follow.
What is the solution to this annual problem?
Couldn't the tour operators be forced to level out their prices throughout the year, instead of them hiking up their prices during school holidays?
Perhaps one or two could try, and then maybe the others would follow.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.That's true Jack, I think the summer break should be a week shorter and that week added to Christmas so parents have a 2 weeks Easter, 5 weeks summer and 3 weeks Christmas as well as the usual 1 week half-term breaks. Or 3 weeks Easter? I think the high season prices do need to be addressed because the cost between afew days is ridiculous esp for larger families.
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my parents always used to take me out of school for holidays - which never affected my education.. however I always missed the first week of term in September - which was always the start of the new year and so when I got there everyone else had paired up with friends and I hadnt...
Made it a harder start to the new year...
However - I would take holidays term time.. but wouldnt time it as my parents did..
Made it a harder start to the new year...
However - I would take holidays term time.. but wouldnt time it as my parents did..
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Amazing Eddie. I remember those days well and the teachers coped well too and they didn't have teaching assistants or parents coming in to help, and what's more the teachers didn't moan all the time about being overworked. They just got on with their job.
Mind you, generally we were in awe of teachers and teachers commanded respect.
Oh dear, I am beginning to sound really old!! ;o(
Mind you, generally we were in awe of teachers and teachers commanded respect.
Oh dear, I am beginning to sound really old!! ;o(
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I am very strict on not taking my kids out of school - why I bother as I don't think they bother to teach them half the time anyway especially as it gets near to the end of the term. I always arrange dental appointments etc in the holidays as well. My eldest has only ever missed 3 days of school in his almost 5 years ( the last 3 he hasn't missed any) and my younger has missed about 5 days in 4 years and only missed 1/2 day in the last 3. However, as I say, I don't really know why I bother when they get no credit for it. Despite the fact that it is a pain in terms of childcare (and considerable cost!) having the kids off for 7 weeks in the summer, i do believe that they do need a long holiday so that they can learn all the things they don't get at school and get time to grow as people. Teachers however don't necessarily need to be off as well for the full time.
Yes, I would agree that the children should have a long break from school, but teachers should work the same amount of weeks that the rest of us do. I have worked with teachers long enough to form this opinion. The majority of them are not as hard working and dedicated as they would like us to think. There are exceptions.
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