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?!

Also is it somehow 'unfair' that in some office jobs you get 4 weeks leave + bank holidays and in others you get 21 days including bank holidays?

No?

Is that because people are free to choose their own career and if someone is talented and bright enough to teach and happen to fancy the holidays as well they bloody well can.

This whining about holidays is beyond petulant.

I dont use school as childcare, I worked before ds started school, but legally ds has to attend school hence I now dont pay as much for childcare, its not hard to figure out

All, they often are at the end or beginning of school terms and you don't notice them so much then.

They do not come out of the required number of days for children to be in school.

teachers get enough time off, they are paid from our taxes to teach our children, they have countless weeks off a year and still add inset days to the holidays.

And I am not teacher bashing its the system that frustrates me, dont know how many ways to say it really

If you don't regard school as childcare, what's the problem?

Oh, and I too am talented and bright - teachers arent saints

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

As has been said they are. These are not extra days off for your children over and above what they should have.

thatisnotall read my post above, we pay taxes for our schools from our wages.....

Then choose to be a teache if you want the holidays that's my point

And not all saints are bright.

The inset days were an extra week of holiday - they were taken from teachers holidays and divided up in term time. Teachers lost this holiday about 18 years ago I think.

How individual schools divide them up is up to them - some parents prefer them directly after a holiday, some prefer them dotted throughout the year.

You can't have a 'holiday' within a 'holiday'

The "paid from our taxes" (so should do what we want) one is always amusing - they are therefore paid from their own taxes too... as well as those of childless people of course, and the argument brings with it the question of the rights of people who have children and don't pay taxes... all a bit crazy!

I dont want to be a bloody teacher, you are not getting my point at all

'our taxes' 'our children'

Yes dreadful.

And teachers pay tax too.

teachers get enough time off, they are paid from our taxes to teach our children, they have countless weeks off a year and still add inset days to the holidays.

So train as a teacher if it is so easy.

BTW do you think so little of your child that you didn't check the dates until today?

'they have countless weeks off a year'

You may need to go back to school pet, it ain't that hard to count to 13

No your point is that you don't want teachers having more holiday than you. You don't want to check school times in advance. You just want school to be open because it inconvienances you if it is not.

Or have I got that wrong as well?

You can hardly blame the school because you had to log in to FB to find out what day your child goes back.

Organise yourself more!

ok, well my last comment is

all teachers are lazy bastards and free childcare

seeing as it doesnt matter what I say that is how people are interpreting it

Why are you ignoring the fact that inset days aren't tagged on as extra holiday?

YABU.

Absolutely we are all idiots and you alone are clever.

Which is why you didn't check the term dates in advance presumably

no sass i work so much that it didnt occur to me that a week of is actually 7 working days off.
I think a great deal of my child your comment is unfair and nasty

Charlie go and make a cuppa and enjoy the day with your kids life is too short to get cross

Yanbu. I was surprised to find out, having been out of school for twenty years, that children now only go to school 9am to 330pm and get upto 13 weeks holiday a year...no wonder the country is going to the dogs.

Children do 190 school days every year, and teachers do 195. That is in our teaching contract.

I have just spent the entire of this holiday writing reports, marking writing assessments, marking books and planning. It has hardly been restful.

Yes, we get 13 weeks' holiday a year, but the summer is the only one totally free of work. Most teachers work long weeks, even if we're not paid for it. I frequently do 12 hour days, not including losing my Sunday to planning and marking.

I enjoy my job, and I know I'm lucky to have lots of holidays, but if is such an easy ride, why doesn't everyone choose to be a teacher?