School Gives Pakistani Children Two Weeks Off During A School Term.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533095/School-85-pupils-Asian-gives-children-two-week-October-half-term-visit-Pakistan-families.html

How do you feel about this, when you yourself are penalised for wishing to take your children on holiday during a school term, when that is the only time it becomes affordable?

[LazyGun]

@boxtops - I had not read all the responses prior to posting, Boxy, so sorry for duplicating your point :)

Was not sure whether or not it was an urban myth, actually, but it does sound right, and if so, it seems to me that term times are a long way overdue for reform

[ukanonymous]

I think its appalling. I nearly got expelled for staying on a week in spain when I was at school.

[andres]

Child labour? Don't make me laugh. The 40s/50s were the best times to have a long summer holiday. Only four weeks then, not six like now. As for working on the farms (I lived on one),the days seemed endless .They were warm and sunny .We used to help with the haymaking,go Blackberrying,have picnics ,camp out ,fish ,swim.No holidays abroad or even holidays in this country for my family. Did we miss them ?Did we heck.

[Hypognosis]

@zebo

what was so facetious about querying the 'helping with the harvest' thing?

My history education stopped at around the English Civil War stage so I have a wierd notion about "school for all", that is to say including the children of farm labourers, was something instigated by the church (they wanted people to be able to read the bible for themselves, or some such) and it happened relatively recently, my guess being mid- or early-1800s.

I must admit I have seen old census returns with Head of household as Farm Labourer and children listed as "Student" but only vagualy recall which part of the family tree and even which census decade it was.

If Lord Palmerston's reforms were later than 1850 and/or you can point me to an article describing routine shooling for the lower classes prior to the banning of child labour, then I'd be most grateful to be pointed toward it.

[THECORBYLOON]

MUSHROOM, you wrote, 'actually Fred, it doesn't comply with the law - at least not yet. the school have anticipated changes which will be facilitated by the Deregulation Bill https://www.gov.uk/go vernment/publications/draft-deregulation-bill which, all being equal, will become law in 2015, a year after their experiment. presumably since the new law will allow what's being planned, the school are banking on there being no legal challenge.' From the article, 'The changes in the government’s Deregulation Bill will pave the way for all individual schools to change the timing and duration of terms and holidays from 2015.
Academies and free schools already have this power' the school is a C of E academy so they are not anticipating the change in the legislation.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

This is a totally pointless story to me.
I grew up in Leicester, where we finished earlier than other counties for the "July Fortnight", when the factories closed for two weeks.
We all went off en masse to Skeggy, Yarmouth, Hunstanton and Rhyll.
The school holidays were tailored to be convenient to the parents in that case, so why not this?

[bazwillrun]

Unbelievable...some of you are aguing about prices , fllights and god knows what esle, i cant be rsed to trawl through the lot

this is simply about a school bending over to accomadate these asains, irrespective of terms etc etc

do you honestly think they d be doing this if the white english parents had asked for this...dream on

hilarious

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

see above Baz.

[bazwillrun]

your school may well have done what you say but I stand by what i say.. in this case its just bending over to suit asians

[ichkeria]

Misleading headline. Misleading and dare I say mischievous question.

[THECORBYLOON]

BAZWILLRUN, if you are correct, why is any academy allowed to set its own terms and why is there proposed legislation for all English schools to have that power?

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Like Leicester's schools bent over to suit mainly white working class parents Baz. Your argument is flawed.

[bazwillrun]

"proposed legislation for all English schools to have that power? "

proposed is the giveaway word there

if white english parents had asked for the school to change its system to allow them to take their kids away to suit, they wouldnt even of entertained the idea

its just the usual bowing down to ethnics wanting their way that we are being forced to get used to.

[bazwillrun]

"Like Leicester's schools bent over to suit mainly white working class parents"

were they all immigrants, or some sort of ethnic minority these white working class families or were they english ...ohhh sorry that s probably an offensive word to some of you..oh well

and precisely what did they do to suit the white familys of unknown origin

[THECORBYLOON]

BAZWILLRUN, other academies ALREADY have the power to re-arrange terms, do you think that they are all mainly Asian too?

[keyplus90]

I should move my children to this school then.

[DaisyNonna]

Chaos seems imminent.

[FredPuli43]

AOG, what was the point of your OP ? Was it to claim that Pakistani children had a privilege which our, non-Pakistani, children would not have?

You say that we would be penalised. Yes, as would any parent, including a Pakistani one, if they took their child out of school in the time set for tuition. If you mean penalised by the extra cost of holidays in most holiday time, the answer is that any school like this one can do what this one did. If you object to that you'll gave to ask for the law to be changed, won't you? The thnicity of the parents has no relevance to that.

The obvious conclusion is that my opening statement correctly states you reason. You don't like the idea of Pakistanis doing it and would have us believe that they are getting away with something because they are not white British but Pakistani..

[FredPuli43]

"have to ask"

[emmie]

perhaps its because most parents would be severely censured for taking their children out of school in term time, and the same has been said on this site. As to making up the time, is that pertinent somehow, this is about rules, who sticks to them and who does not. Like wearing school uniform, what the school decides. If they say it's fine then that is their choice, however i did think that schools had to stick with term times and that taking children on holiday mid term was punishable by a fine or strong condemnation.