to think there is NO NEED for 2 inset days after a week off?

[Charliefarlie1192]

Only realised by asking on fb this morning that ds doesnt return to school till wednesday as today and tomorrow are inset days, aibu to think this is beyond ridiculous?!

They need to do them, so doesn't matter when!

You do get that they are teacher training days don't you?
And that they don't come out of the days your child is meant to be in school?

why cant the teachers train during the holidays? they get enough!

YABU. Schools are required by law to have five inset days a year. When they decide to have them is up to the school and/or the local authority. It is actually less disruptive to tag a day onto the end of a holiday than to have five random days "off" in the middle of term time for the children.
Inset days are working days for the staff, it isn't like the teachers are giving themselves two extra days of holiday.

YABU. They have to have them at some point. It makes sense to tag them on to a holiday to save unnecessary disruption to other school weeks.

For working parents they are a nightmare especially after having to arrange childcare for a whole week. I can understand how you feel.

inset days are for teacher training, they aren't for you/ the kids.

Schools feel they are being kind to YOU by lengthening the holiday either for you to go away or arrange child care in one block. Inset days splashed her and there are equally unpopular.

Also often the days are when they are as that is when the schools can get the training team in.

Schools are dammed what ever they do!

Ha! It's the old 'teachers are lazy bastards' thing again .

Wish we had a couple more days off now sun decided to come out. Trust me the teachers are having the most tedious boring day !!

im not blaming the school or the teachers, its the whole damn system - extremely frustrating for working parents

Well, it might be that the trainers are not available during the holidays. And 'holidays' are not often holidays - lots of teachers spend significant periods of their breaks in school planning and preparing.

Soooo... you're angry that the staff are working during your children's holiday, OP?

School is technically intended for education, not actually as childcare ...

also, I dont think teachers are lazy bastards my sister is a teacher and I know she works hard but she gets a damn sight more holidays per year than i do

They are training in the holidays: INSET days have been taken out of the school holiday days.

Delphine's right that it may well be determined by when the trainers are available (and they can't do every school on the same day, obviously).

YABU schools advertise these dates AT LEAST a year in advance.

To paraphrase an old saying, 'poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency for the teachers'

I don't mind when they have them but think they should be published at the same time as the term dates (our school does this and it make planning easier).

I also think schools shouldn't have to close to be polling stations - its disruptive to pupils, staff and parents. But thats another issue I know!

Thatisnotitatalyour comment is irrelevant, i worked sincew ds was 5 months old

So you begrudge your sister her holiday? Nice.

Also - Teachers are not free baby sitters.

hahaha Shatnersbassoon yes that is exactly what I am doing, begrudging my sister a holiday.......

Charlie they have come out of the holidays, teachers lost a week of their hols to enable these "Baker days", named after good ol' Ken Baker from the Thatcher years.

Why does when you went back to work make my comment irrelevant? Complaints about teachers holidays/ training days always seem to be about school being unavailable as childcare, not about impact on children's education.

I really and truly don't understand why the inset days can't be during the term-time holiday rather than appended to it.