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Leaving teaching and getting past the holidays? How do you do with 30 days off? Is it better now?

154 replies

Se12345 · 11/01/2025 10:18

I feel like the only reason I would continue is because once I have kids soon I can go part time 3 days and have all the half terms.

or I can move and do something else with about 30 days off in the year plus bank holidays and option to buy one week?

OP posts:
Beamur · 11/01/2025 10:25

Term time hours. Some (non teaching) local authority jobs will let you do this and you can take unpaid leave.

ToKittyornottoKitty · 11/01/2025 10:24

Also even if you got that you’d be competing with everyone else to get holidays in the school holidays, there’s no guarantee you’d get school holidays at all.

ToKittyornottoKitty · 11/01/2025 10:23

30 days with option to buy another week
sounds like a lot, there would be no chance in my
job

MNTourist · 11/01/2025 10:22

Are you asking whether YABU to stay in teaching solely because of the holidays?
If so then I’d say yes, unfair to yourself and to pupils you teach when your heart is not in it and you’re ticking off days to next half term.
If you are at a considering kids age, too young to be settling for a career you don’t want.