To ask teachers if you just accept the inflated holiday prices?

I know a few teachers who have a small U.K. break in the 6 weeks and then go abroad in either the may or the October holiday.

I teach Monday to Wednesday so will often go away the Wednesday or Thursday before holidays technically start. It's still usually more expensive but not quite as bad as actual holiday weeks

Scottish teachers get 40 days paid leave; the rest of the school holidays are unpaid school closure days.

No. You are wrong. Teachers get the standard 28 days paid annual leave, like every other job. The rest of the time is unpaid leave. HTH.

Teachers are not paid for the holidays. Term-time pay is spread out over the 12 months.

No, you're not.

HTH.

There is nothing you can do but accept it. Camping in France is your best summer option. Local camp sites not the massive ones.

It's not inflated tho, it's the price. The holiday companies have to reduce the prices in the winter or no one would go. It's supply and demand. If you can go other times you can get a bargain. If you can't you have to pay normal price.

Am I right in thinking teachers get 12 weeks paid holiday leave per year? I get 4 weeks and I don’t take the kids on holiday out of term time.

@RamonaRamirez

Yes we tend to go to places like that too & some people don't seem to consider it a holiday unless it's all inclusive with water slides & entertainment in the evening?

@SD1978

Not just teachers- it's everyone with children in the same situation.

Not really as I was a teacher for 8 years before having children & always had to go away school hols & mine are a few years off no longer coming & I will still have to go in school hols. Presumably those in other professions can revert back to taking hols in June/September?

We used to have main hols in May half term when ours were tiny & go to France for a week in a tent & that was affordable at the time.

I'm not complaining as it's just how it is & not unexpected. I don't know why parents of school age children moan as surely there have always been 6 weeks summer holiday?

I don't hear teachers moaning about the inflated price of holidays.

DH a teacher, we’ve always gone to maybe slightly lesser favoured destinations?

we’ve holidayed in Poland, Holland and Denmark for example, and Berlin once 🙂 And Somerset

always organised own travel and accommodation so these were not all inclusive type holidays by the pool (never quite been able to afford that but I know it is many people’s idea of a “real” holiday)

If you don’t mind me asking, what career are you switching to? Best of luck whatever it is! I am giving it a few more years and if it doesn’t get any easier I’ll be doing the same.

We have no choice, it’s just one of those things. The holidays are a pain for lots of people in the private sector too - my brother’s company have basically been told no one can have holidays in August to make it fair. Childcare is an increasing issue now as two adults have to work to maintain a decent standard of living.

As a single and childfree teacher, it really impacts me in that I never am able to go on holidays with friends. They (non-teachers, and childfree) are obviously going to choose to go away in term-time when it's much cheaper, and I'd feel way too guilty for asking them to wait until I'm free and pay a fortune more.

Luckily I'm leaving at Christmas for a different career (fingers crossed) so it's only an issue for a short time longer.

I probably shouldn't say this, but I fully understand why parents take their kids out of school during term-time, if I had kids, I'd do the exact same.

I’m not a teacher but we always had to take ‘factory fortnight’ the most expensive two weeks.
we went camping in Europe, had great holidays at an affordable price.
invest in equipment, look after it and you will have great holidays for years. Also as a teacher you can have a much longer trip!

Yep , nothing I can do about it really.

But it doesn't just affect teachers and those on teachers' wages. I was a technician in a school, so restricted to school holidays despite being on a fraction of the wages of a teacher.

Teachers, perhaps. Support staff on TTO contracts, though? They just don't get one at all unless somebody else is paying for it.

Support staff on TT+ x weeks? Probably don't get one at all because they're not able to take full leave over Christmas, half terms or Easter and are restricted to the first two weeks of August (unless they want to lose their entitlement altogether, as they aren't able to take time off during termtime either).

Yes, I can't afford to go abroad. We're going to Wales for 7 nights instead. I'm really looking forward to it.....I couldn't bare to spend 3k plus on a basic beach holiday!

I like to go away at Easter and in Summer anyway - can’t imagine not going on holiday in August. It’s ingrained in me that August is summer holiday month 😂 maybe since my own school days?!

Question for teachers with grown up kids - I’m curious to know if going away as a single person or couple is cheaper than going as a family in the school holidays?

I'd imagine it's hugely outweighed by no need for holiday childcare. Just annoying for those with no kids or grown up kids.