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But as I said above TF - probably your kids didn't have as much other time off for minor weather related incidents, minor illnesses and teacher inset days?

So their missing week probably had far less impact than today?

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I see what you mean but I was talking about a package holiday where usually the first kid was free, the second 30% or something like that and the food laid on. We did look at taking our van over the water but it would have added to the cost in terms of petrol and ferries. But my main niggle wasn't the driving (I was driving a moped and car in Italy when my father worked there in my late teens) as the amount of time travelling to get some decent sunshine. Either driving down from up here to the ferry down south or Newcastle/Hull to Amsterdam, either was a full day till you hit foreign soil. Then a further day travelling over there. I saw that as not holiday time if you know what I mean and I'd rather spend that time actually on holiday. We could do it now but anything overseas and we like to fly and start the holiday 'time' as quickly as possible. I know it may seem strange to those like you who do these great journeys?

Yes, the  trip is the holiday as far as we are concerned, so we are on holiday the moment we leave the house.  Always  plenty to see, we rarely have a destination in mind, though usually a "furthest point", after reaching that we return a different way.

 

Don't get me wrong I enjoy the trip to the site, just anything longer than one day in a car for me is just too much wasted time, Each to their own

School trips, apparently schools can't discriminate against the children of parents who are 'unable' to pay for these so maybe the same should be applied to those who can't afford those family holidays in term time!  Maybe schools, or the rest of us, should pay for the holidays of these children. At least all children would then be on a level playing field of 'educational' experiences!

 It's a pity that the "Supreme Court" does'nt adjudicate on the "A" frame conundrum !!  !!.

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Perhaps every time the school head () agrees to giving kids time off from their important lessons, then a member of the teaching staff should be allocated to spend school holiday time teaching the child what he / she missed?

Should sharpen the concentration when considering time off.......

A very good idea Ian, I expect that most staff would welcome the extra pocket money (well £175 per day) provided by coming in during the children's holidays. Or retired teachers having to subsist on their fraction of a wage (as you once put it about retired folk) could pick up some money and spend it on club sites when the kids are back at school.  I mean you do realise that teachers are only contractually have to be in schools for 195 days per year don't you? They don't get paid holidays (their pay for 195 is just paid in 12 instalments) or indeed have any mention of holidays in their contracts. So If you want them to come on day 196 you'll have to pay them. But where would this money come from? 

Oh and the term is Headteacher.