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I got no incentive whatsoever from any of my teachers.

And let's be honest, you want to be a teacher and have an easy, if moderately paid, life? Just turn up and do the course.

That applys to anyone wanting to "improve" their lot,all the teachers that we know have had to have a good university degree

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Both our children are software engineers, and both are married to teachers, so destined to holiday at peak periods until retirement.

when the children came along we did our sums and that we saw that we could either have one two week package holiday abroad each year in the summer or buy a caravan and go away throughout the year. Despite the high initial outlay for the caravan it would even out after about 7/8 years which it did. I think it was the best choice as we went away through out the whole year.

thanks very much for your help all the others on here have rather gone off topic so will look out for other sites and of course will take my dogs along xx

If you are looking at September for example worth looking at the likes of Haven sites, I stayed on one last September on a hardstanding pitch with own water and drainage and paid £9 per night, grass pitches were even cheaper. Touring pitches were well away from the main facilities so nice and quiet and good value for money.

Unusually I am totally opposed to the views expressed by IanH and much closer to those of JVB66 on this one.

Like JVB66 when my children were younger i was in a similar employment to him so each year I always took as annual leave the two weeks immediately after the August bank holiday week.

So  as a dreadful parent each of my three children missed at least the first week of the Autumn term. Clearly almost fatally challenging their Education!

Today my son is a Squadron leader (Aircrew) in the RAF, My eldest Daughter is a Bank manager with one of our main banks, and my youngest daughter has her own very successful business.

I am very sorry that my dreadful parenting has caused such problems to my family, but still believe that if children receive the correct loving care, and the right amount of challenging encouragement, such nanny state restrictions can only hold them back!

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We were chatting about this the other day and one lady said how she missed school the day that they started doing long division - she said that it traumatised her and it took her ages to catch up and she always felt that she had missed out.

As kids, we were never taken away from school for holidays. But I do remember vividly watching those who did miss periods and then went through the motions of frantically 'copying up' someone else's notes and I'm sure that neither they nor anyone else seriously thought that they were learning anything from that.

A very wise decision, Corners. 

Clearly one that you never regretted!