Schools in England will be able to set their own term dates and holidays
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[B]All state schools in England will be able to decide their own term dates, under plans for more school autonomy announced by the government.[/B]
They would still have to operate within a legal limit of a minimum of 190 school days each year.
[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23129472[/URL]
Hopefully there's a maximum limit also.
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That says minimum limit?
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That's not what he asked imo, he wanted to know whether schools can have like only a week of holidays per year now.
Ooh, another pointless thing done by the Conservatories as part of their plan to do everything possible to turn every school into a private school that doesn't involve actually making school cost money.
[editline]1st July 2013[/editline]
In hindsight, that was overly harsh, but it still seems totally unnecessary for a state school to have to change its term times.
Hopefully many of your schools don't turn into those 'year round' schools. That shit would be sooooo harsh.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;41265144]Hopefully there's a maximum limit also.[/QUOTE]
Even if there isn't, they wouldn't do something stupid like that for a few reasons;
1. Parents wouldn't send their kids to that school
2. Teachers also have to work, they have it bad enough as it is so I doubt they would agree to work more weeks.
Teaching higher than primary school is awful anyway, the pay isnt worth the effort it takes to get the qualifications to be a teacher, and on top of that you pretty much have to work double-triple [B]unpaid[/B] hours in 'lesson planning time'
From what I read, being a teacher in Finland is as prestigious as being a lawyer or doctor, is good paying and requires a lot of effort to get into, and people wonder why our education system is awful. When I was in high school most of the teachers were obviously way overworked, stressed and they just couldn't deal with it, not to mention the actual classes/material was incredibly dry and unstimulating so people would just misbehave all of the time.
Workers have a minimum of 4 weeks per year holiday so they'd at least get that.
So if you have 2 kids in different schools it will now be almost impossible to have a family holiday?
[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;41265515]So if you have 2 kids in different schools it will now be almost impossible to have a family holiday?[/QUOTE]
I can't imagine it would change much. College's have the same freedom but the holidays are the same as school ones, apart from the summer being a couple of weeks longer and the minimum number of days depends on the course.
this is bad, kids should be able to share holiday time even if they go to different schools
I can't really see many upsides to this. It's usually quite convenient to have kids all off at the same time.
Teachers can all go on training courses at the same time, attractions can ramp up to accomodate peak times, it's easier to arrange childcare. Plus it will suck for kids not being able to hang out with friends from other schools and you just know it means shorter summer holidays too.
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;41266018]this is bad, kids should be able to share holiday time even if they go to different schools[/QUOTE]
I really can't see many schools changing dates for holidays, it'd just be an inconvenience for everybody
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;41265293]Ooh, another pointless thing done by the Conservatories as part of their plan to do everything possible to turn every school into a private school that doesn't involve actually making school cost money.
[editline]1st July 2013[/editline]
In hindsight, that was overly harsh, but it still seems totally unnecessary for a state school to have to change its term times.[/QUOTE]
Except schools already did this to a small degree to avoid schools in the same area ending on the same day to avoid fights (by just marking everyone in despite being closed) so the school having more power is bad why? They still have guidelines to follow. It also says in the article that academies (majority of secondary schools) will not be affected. Not like teachers would like the usual holidays off for the obvious reasons.
Giving teachers right to decide their own holidays is hardly an attempt at privatization. But yeah the Conservatives are obviously at fault here I mean just reading the article shows it .....
"Labour announced this very policy two weeks ago"
I think this is a great idea, that means holidays will end up being cheaper as there wont be able to advantage of the six weeks holiday being the peak time. Im all for it
[QUOTE=Seriousshakey;41266768]I think this is a great idea, that means holidays will end up being cheaper as there wont be able to advantage of the six weeks holiday being the peak time. Im all for it[/QUOTE]
But I only went the same school as a few of my friends. We'd meet up during the school holidays which were the same, give or take a few days. I just don't see how this is cost effective to the tax payer at all.
[QUOTE=Memobot;41267064]But I only went the same school as a few of my friends. We'd meet up during the school holidays which were the same, give or take a few days. [B]I just don't see how this is cost effective to the tax payer at all.[/B][/QUOTE]
Because teachers get paid during the holidays, only those on term-only contracts don't.
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