Overpriced Holidays In The School Holidays

Geez. Primary school doesn't matter, since it's basically like 1 years worth of education washed out over 6.

And once doing GCSE's etc the "kids" should be responsible enough to just catch up on their own time on anything they missed.

I took like at least 2 weeks of term time holiday per study year, every year from 1 up to university. Learn more on holiday reading a book of fiction with a coctail in hand than 2 weeks of school. Seriously.
 
Edrof said:
You really need to change schools, if that's your experience.
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I just don't believe primary school is about hardcore education. It's about social skills, basic reading/writing/arithmetic. It's unlike secondary education, which covers specific items in specific time frames.

It's not as if you'll go to Tenerife with your parents and end up with an education that covers animals with letters from a-h, and n-z, and know all the times tables apart from 9.
 
hardly think 1 or 2 weeks is going to ruin a child's education, maybe they should concentrate on the kids that bunk off school instead, or the teachers that cannot teach properly or control their classes 1st before harrasing parents who take their kids on holiday once a year at affordable times of the year.
 
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The Halk said:
primary school is babysitting more or less.
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I don't think such a flippant comment has ever made me so mad in all the time I have been on these forums.

I work sodding hard to give the children in my class the best education I can give them. I wish I could sit around watching TV while keeping an eye on a couple of kids - that's what babysitting is. That is certainly not what goes on in my classroom.



I may be able to edit this into a more coherent post when the red mist has gone away.
 
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albert said:
Maybe reply back when you've got some kids .... then you'll understand ;)
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What's that got to do with anything? Never took my boy to either of those destinations.

Glaucus said:
Durying any period, they have to catch up and won't understand the expanded topic or it requires extra teach effort. Which they can't afford in these huge class sizes and disobedient times.
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Having worked in a school and for the local LEA (at least for here) I can say without a shadow of a doubt that catching up for a week during routine term is easily achievable by even a modestly gifted child. A truly bright kid would do so even easier.

Now if they farmed the brighter children off to a top class like they did in my day then missing a week of excellerated education would be harder. Not impossible but not recommended.
 
vicisthebest said:
I don't think such a flippant comment has ever made me so mad in all the time I have been on these forums.
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I'm not quite sure why you're so mad after reading a comment which you did yourself notice was flippant. I think you're being a bit harsh on babysitting, it's hard enough with 1 or 2 children, never mind a class full. I'd imagine that's fairly difficult to keep them doing something productive.
 
What some people fail to consider is the ongoing impact on the whole class of removing children during term time. Whilst you may believe your child may not personally "suffer" from the loss of 1 or 2 weeks education, image trying to manage this in a class of say 25 where the majority are being taken out of class for holidays. The teacher's going to be all over the place trying to make sure missed work is caught up on.

I know cost is a big issue, but for me (and I've got 3 kids) we took holidays when we could afford them. Often that was a weeks camping in the Lake District rather than a experiencing foreign cultures on far away shores but I don't think my 3 are any worse for it!
 
albert said:
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I don't know about anywhere else in the country , but Sunderland Council are having a campaign to keep the kids in school. BUT , how thick does Sunderland Council think we are?. Don't they know that in the school holidays the holiday prices nearly double? - A Thomas Cook holiday to Mallorca costs about 80% MORE in August compared with the same holiday in early September – £1,719 compared with £920. Centerparcs TREBLES it's price in the school holidays.

Why would any sane parent think this is a good offer from our Council?

Am i the only parent who takes the kids on holiday in term time? BTW mine are 7 & 8.

EDIT: I can only take my Summer holidays in the last week of July/1st week of August (Nissan Fortnight)
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What about school staff? They have to take holidays at all the most expensive times of the year.
 
Maybe kids shouldn't have 175 days off school a year. 5 weeks holiday bookable, the same as working parents.
 
I wasn't there half the time and still did better than average on exams to the shock of almost everyone of my teachers.

I fail to see why missing a week of it will have any effect on exams which could be two years away!

All the questions in exams are based on that years work, so missing a week off in 2nd year and sitting exams in 4th year will have zero bearing on anything.

If I had kids there's no way I'd spend double the price on a holiday just incase they missed anything valuable in the 3 hours of geography they were going to miss in the week.

Near exams (within 4-6 months) then of course it's wise to buckle down and not miss anything.

P.S. I agree with "halk" missing 5 days off from primary school is harly a big deal. I hardly think the kids going to grow up retarded and fail it's senior exams because it never did a potato painting on a Tuesday or made a necklace out of cheerios for mrs chuckles!
 
Smart kids with rich parents will not be hurt by a holiday in term time. Disadvantaged (this is the new code for stupid right?) kids of poor parents will not catch up and will suffer in exams.

The only answer is poor parents admit they can't go to Spain and go camping in Wales like our parents did.

Or don't have kids, they won't look after you when you're old anyway.
 
At the end of the day i wouldn't have to take my kids on holiday in term time if the greedy holiday companies didn't treble/double their price. Surely this is the problem.
 
albert said:
At the end of the day i wouldn't have to take my kids on holiday in term time if the greedy holiday companies didn't treble/double their price. Surely this is the problem.
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No it isn't the problem. You're really quite lacking in basic economic knowledge here...

The value of something is what people are prepared to pay.
 
The Halk said:
No it isn't the problem. You're really quite lacking in basic economic knowledge here...

The value of something is what people are prepared to pay.
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Bit harsh there old chap! However, you're quite right.

If you were a company and you could sell a product for 3x the price at certain times of the year... you're obviously going to.
 
The example I think of is gold. Why is a gold ring worth more money than a brass ring?

Also, Albert I didn't mean to come across as harsh. I am surprised though.
 
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