Overpriced Holidays In The School Holidays
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"if your child takes a 2 week holiday during term time, their chances of gaining 5 a*-c grades drops 82%"
I call BS..... 2 weeks drops it down 82% lmao, what the?
Where the hell did they make up that statistic from?
Does that mean 4 weeks out and they may aswell quit school as they will be a complete failure?
I call BS..... 2 weeks drops it down 82% lmao, what the?
Where the hell did they make up that statistic from?
Does that mean 4 weeks out and they may aswell quit school as they will be a complete failure?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/jan/26/cost-raising-child-rises-218000
welcome to reality. If you didn't realise having kids and the associated implications are expensive I'm sure you do now
welcome to reality. If you didn't realise having kids and the associated implications are expensive I'm sure you do now
"if your child takes a 2 week holiday during term time, their chances of gaining 5 a*-c grades drops 82%"
I call BS..... 2 weeks drops it down 82% lmao, what the?
Where the hell did they make up that statistic from?
Does that mean 4 weeks out and they may aswell quit school as they will be a complete failure?
Perhaps you went on holidays in term time and therefore can't read, you missed out an important word "to"
Lmao, nice one with the joke there.
Yeh I did indeed miss it out! ha
However still a bold statement, is that stating every child is at 100% when they are at school then?
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never underestimate the value of saving up for a worthwhile holiday every two or three years in the actual holidays
social fitting as in kids being kids laughing at the poor kid who can't afford a holiday in the normal holidays
There are a lot of families out there who can afford ONE holiday with their kids full stop... and if it means they are forced to take it in the summer holidays when the prices are as much as three times the cost, it just means that they will never go on a family holiday. There are a lot of families whose jobs have very strict holiday timings, that do not fit in with the summer recess....and still others where leave is at very short notice and sporadic.
Things simply are not as black and white as some seem to think. Besides, sometimes the Parents actually know what is best for their children and if I wanted to take them out of school I would, with or without permission and there is not really a lot anyone can do about it quite frankly. I mean really, a £50 fine when a family will save hundreds on a holiday by going in term time....
The one time we did it, I wrote a letter INFORMING the school that my son would not be in school for the beginning week of term as he would still be on holiday with us and that my leave was such that it was the only time available.....The headmistress asked us to come in to discuss it as it wasn't permitted to miss the first week of a new intake, and I simply wrote another note saying the subject did not need further discussion and my son would return to school on such and such a date.....that was it....what can they actually do about it.
Fining me wouldn't have looked too good in the local press that would have been for sure.
Sometimes Schools overstep themselves quite frankly, they should be concentrating on the kids who are truant and the parents who don't care.....generally the same ones who do not take their kids on holiday to begin with and whose kids have the worst attendance records, not chasing after the Parents that actually take an active interest in their kids and make sure that they are at school normally....it seems that it is easier to deal with reasonable people (and the ones most likely to pay a fine) than actually do something constructive about the actual real problem.
Yeah, OK!!!!
I think you will find that a lot of kids do not get to go on holiday at all, so anyone who is going on any kind of holiday is unlikely to be a victim of your "social fitting".....they are more likely to be jealous that the kid was enjoying himself on holiday while they were in school.
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Then punish the kids picking on the disadvantaged one and teach them right from wrong? Never understood the logic that because bullies will target someone for a decision they shouldn't make the decision for themselves.
I for one am for freedom, I am fed up with the government interfering with social values if and when they chose as long as there is enough political cover but refuse to do what is actually correct when it is too difficult.
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Well put!
If this is a major problem then all the schools should just assign a random week as an "arrange your holidays on this week" time, if every school had it on different weeks then the holiday companies wouldn't be able to fix the prices quite as easily. I would agree with some here that a holiday can be beneficial for kids although it does depend on the kind of holiday.
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Bet the teachers would love that. Sit around drinking coffee waiting for all the kids to come back from their week off 
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^Anyone who takes their children to centre parcs or the like is doing far more damage than missing a week of school.
The main thing I remember about school is the ridiculous level of repeating the exact same thing over and over again to the extent where I had mastered long division/multiplication etc by year 5/6 and was still forced to do it in year 9 (in the top set of my year in a school of over 2000 students no less) because either kids with **** parents who took them to centre parcs/didn't get involved in their education/let them stay up to 11pm every night and god knows what else couldn't grasp simple maths; Or alternatively the school didn't have a clue what it was doing (probably both).
1) Go on sky scanner and get a cheap flight to a random destination far away from general touristy places (preferably somewhere where not everyone speaks English so you can teach your child a foreign language at the same time).
2) Book a hotel/self catering or whatever at a cheap price excluding an overpriced booking agent.
3) Behold as your child(ren) learns far more than they ever would in school in the same timeframe whether you take them in term time or the school holidays. It helps if you do things other than lying on the beach like a dead whale the entire time and take them to interesting places.
4) Marvel as your child is immersed in a different culture, actually needs to think, may show an interest in something, develops life skills and generally grows as a human being.
5) ???
6) Profit.
P.S. The last holiday I went on cost only £110pp for a week in Poland although the accomodation for half the time while we were in Krakow was not what I would suggest for a family with small children. While there I visited Auschwitz and a child would learn much more about WW2 in that one day than weeks in a classroom for example.
The main thing I remember about school is the ridiculous level of repeating the exact same thing over and over again to the extent where I had mastered long division/multiplication etc by year 5/6 and was still forced to do it in year 9 (in the top set of my year in a school of over 2000 students no less) because either kids with **** parents who took them to centre parcs/didn't get involved in their education/let them stay up to 11pm every night and god knows what else couldn't grasp simple maths; Or alternatively the school didn't have a clue what it was doing (probably both).
1) Go on sky scanner and get a cheap flight to a random destination far away from general touristy places (preferably somewhere where not everyone speaks English so you can teach your child a foreign language at the same time).
2) Book a hotel/self catering or whatever at a cheap price excluding an overpriced booking agent.
3) Behold as your child(ren) learns far more than they ever would in school in the same timeframe whether you take them in term time or the school holidays. It helps if you do things other than lying on the beach like a dead whale the entire time and take them to interesting places.
4) Marvel as your child is immersed in a different culture, actually needs to think, may show an interest in something, develops life skills and generally grows as a human being.
5) ???
6) Profit.
P.S. The last holiday I went on cost only £110pp for a week in Poland although the accomodation for half the time while we were in Krakow was not what I would suggest for a family with small children. While there I visited Auschwitz and a child would learn much more about WW2 in that one day than weeks in a classroom for example.
Why did you post this?
Teachers work in school from 8-4 then can be doing a few hours marking and planning each night and most weekends are taken up aswell.
Oh and teachers are in school over the holidays working.
Before you post about a job that you have zero knowlage about i suggest you think and then dont bother.
Wow. Just wow.
For information, I'm taking my boy out of school the last week of term for our holiday.
I'm not paying 3x as much for the holiday just to do it 2 or 3 weeks later.