to be pissed off that schools are off AGAIN!?

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after being off almost the whole month of april then the bank holiday and the voting day for some schools, and knowing that they finish for 7 weeks soon, why are they going to be off the friday before and the tuesday after the bank holiday at end of may? ffs at this rate i'd be better off home tutoring!!

Its not that i dont want to spend time with my children but i have had to fight all year for them to notice my child cant read (7) and now they have eventually took notice shes been off school longer than she has been in there! its bloody ridiculous (insert seriously angry face with much feet stamping)

INSET?

we have 2 inset days after half term

My DS's school is off from the 27th for a week for half term, thats standard. And you will probably find that they've had the same amount of time off school as they would have done last year, barring the royal wedding, it just seems like more because Easter was at a funny time this year

Yabu, tis probably inset and they were already taken out of teachers holidays. It's probably your individual schools idea to use 2 up like that.

And to be fair some parents prefer it like that, to have it all off at once rather than odd days throughout the year.

Yabu, school isn't the only place your dd can read, my ds is having difficulties with school, however its not up to the school alone, she will do one hours reading at school max, at that age, she can do that at home as well.

it is almost certainly INSET days which have been added to the days a teacher would normally have worked in the past (ie, the teachers are not getting extra days off). They tend to put them on the end or beginning of terms so that families can go away for a longer period - often giving people the chance of a cheaper flight or traffic free roads and so as to maybe make it easier for parents to extend whatever holiday childcare they have by one day rather than finding a one off arrangement for a random day.

That'd be half-term, then? As per usual?

AIBU to think that if schools announced there would be no half term this year due to the extra bank holiday for the wedding and the late Easter break, AIBU would probably implode?

You want to try having them in school in my country...only till 1.30 until they are 8, only until 2.40 after that, 3 weeks for Easter, every bank holiday includes the friday before, over 2 months for summer holidays, 3 in secondary school.

I see far too much of my children.

I don't think schools specifically requested the royal wedding day as a bank holiday did they? No doubt if they'd tried to open , hordes of parents would complain that their children were having to be in school and not at street parties/ weekends away etc
The other dates are standard holidays or inset.
School isn't childcare , you need to sort that separately. And neither is school the only place your child can read; you can be reading to her and encouraging a love of books.

HellNo, that sounds hideous! Which destination ought I cross of my imaginary emigration list?!

For the OP, it just seems ridiculous because it's been bunched up. Blame the church for Easter, they set it, not the school:(

I'll give you a clue, its not very far away, and you'd have to be mad to want to move here anyway, unless you like dead tigers and bank bail-outs.

I would certainly implode as we're off on hols that week, and coming back on Monday, the inset day!

Ireland?

YABU it's a week off for most schools not just the Friday before and Tuesday after.

Unless your child has learning difficulties, can you not teach him/her to read?

feel sorry for the older DC. Ds GCSEs start next week and I do think he has done less in school revision than any of our older ones. To be fair he did go in for 2 days in the Easter hols for extra classes. I really can't fault his teachers. All departments gave up at least 2 days of their holidays, and some staff went in for more.

We have next Tuesday off for Vesak Day. However our school is not having a half term- they are working straight through as it is only a 9 week term.

she has issues regarding growing up so didnt want to learn in p1 i told the teachers this and dd1 flatly refused to learn anything now in p2 i told them again she doesnt know her phonological letters and cant read they disagreed, finally they have woken up and told me she cant read??????? Duh!! I have been doing work with her now that she finally has decided she does want to learn and they are having all this time off so it is stopping her from learning the next steps, and while i know this is not the teachers problem i still think its disgraceful they have so much time off.

when i was at school you got the summer holidays, a week and xmas, and 1 at easter, wtf was wrong with that?

'when i was at school you got the summer holidays, a week and xmas, and 1 at easter, wtf was wrong with that?'

I'm past 50 and my holidays always involved 3 half terms and three main holidays with a fortnight at Easter and at Christmas when I was a schoolchild. So you must be a lot older than me. Or lived in an alternate universe.

YABU

shuld the school cancel the teachers and everyone else holidays just because your child has a problem with reading - read with her at home.

what holiday is this then. Teacher recovery?

Disgraceful they have so much time off? What an ill thought out comment. If it is inset they won't be off, unless they have done twilight.

And I'm with Goblin, I am 30 and had a fortnight at Christmas and Easter, 6 to 8 wks for summer and a half-term each term. Plus Baker days and term time bank hols...much like now.

Whereabouts were you schooled to have such unusual holidays?

Well if only you could have given them a schedule in advance of the months or terms in which your daughter was likely to want to learn, they could have built the terms around that!

Teachers don't much care for INSET either, you know. And there has always been a half term in May, surely?

They learn loads at home too don't forget