Working on Good Friday - rather unusual!

[DisabledDemon]

I work as a private English tutor and every year, see an increase in students wanting extra tuition at this time of year (the Mock results are in and a number of students have realised that they need more work if they're going to get the grades they need - panic has set in!).

Covid, of course, contributed to this, as did the teachers' strikes - but this is the first year that I've found myself booked to teach on Good Friday (and not just one student). What on earth is going on?

Good Friday is a bank holiday in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Easter Monday is a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The current Yr11’s lost a term and a half of Yr7, a term of Yr8 in their ‘bubbles’ plus other lost weeks if they came into contact with COVID. I think it’s taken it’s toll on their schooling, I feel like they’re a ‘lost’ year group. It will be interesting to see this cohorts National grades in August.

@endofthelinefinally not true for everywhere.

Good Friday has been a holiday in Scotland for many years before they made Easter Monday a holiday too.

I have realised my mistake! (Having always worked Good Friday, NHS). I have received all the emails and @s! Sorry everyone.

I've actually been doing this for some years now - hence the surprise as I've never been asked to tutor on Good Friday before. I try not to turn down any of my students as I know how hard they've been working and how anxious some of them are.

I didn't say that I didn't want to. I said that I was surprised as it hadn't happened before. I certainly haven't got any objection to working on Good Friday; I'm self-employed - I go where the work is.

I beg to differ.I was at my local Catholic church celebrating the Good Friday mass and it was packed so too were all the surrounding Christian Churches.Good Friday is a very important day to Christians in this Christian country and so it should be.Some local stores close early due to the mass starting at 3pm.Good Friday mass celebrates the passion of our lord .Easter is the most important time in the Christian religious calander.I wish you all a very happy and peaceful Easter ✝️✝️

@NannySid I beg to differ.I was at my local Catholic church celebrating the Good Friday mass and it was packed so too were all the surrounding Christian Churches.Good Friday is a very important day to Christians in this Christian country and so it should be.Some local stores close early due to the mass starting at 3pm.Good Friday mass celebrates the passion of our lord .Easter is the most important time in the Christian religious calander.I wish you all a very happy and peaceful Easter ✝️✝️

It is tradition not to celebrate mass on Good Friday, as it is a day of morning and sadness. The last mass is held the day before on Holy Thursday and then not again until Easter Sunday. On Good Friday there are services and liturgies but no mass.
Sorry it's a bit off topic, but if you are posting something and "beg to differ", you should get your facts straight.

*mourning not morning. Oops!

I suspect it’s because a lot of schools only finished Thursday, so it’s getting tutoring before the holiday has really ‘begun’

@waitingforthedrain Agreed. I live in a very Catholic country and Good Friday is not a bank holiday because it's not a day of celebration!