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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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possible teachers strike and zero tolerance on holidays

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plum100 · 01/10/2013 12:48

Hi Everyone,

I don't usually post on this board but this issue is starting to irk me quite a bit.

We have just been told the school will not authorise any term time holidays now and that we will be fined if we take our children out.

Now we have a letter warning us of a possible strike maybe on two occasions and its really annoyed me.

AIBU to be annoyed of the attitude that its not OK for me to take my child out of school and provide them with a restful learning experience ,but it's ok for them to close the school when they decide that they are being made to work till they are 68 and haven't had a pay rise for 2 years and they don't like it.

Its a bit 'one rule for one and another for others ' isn't it? If my childs education is so important that they have to fine me so I don't take them out - then how can they just shut!

Maybe I should fine them for forced unauthorised absence of my child! so bloody annoyed!!!!

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pippitysqueakity · 01/10/2013 21:47

Actually, as a teacher all this fining parents for unauthorised absences is totally lining my pockets so much, I will take early retirement at 60. Just because I can.

Oh...wait....

ipadquietly · 01/10/2013 22:58

I'm taking early retirement at 57. Sod the loss of pension. I loathe the way this government is destroying education - the new curriculum: the failing infrastructure; the academies and free schools; the inequalities; the data; SPAG; the random new early years curriculum; changing exams standards and criteria; poor facilities for teacher training; CONSTANT Ofsted changes; schools having power to decide their own pay levels; and the feeling we're always given that we're NEVER QUITE GOOD ENOUGH.

No-one ever stops to think of the effect of all of these things on the children, who surely should be our primary concern.

Count me out of this game.

thegreatdivide · 26/03/2014 17:15

Can children go on strike to protect their future education?

gordyslovesheep · 26/03/2014 17:22

did you bump every old thread with 'teacher' and 'strike' in the title

you realise teachers have a vested interest in protecting education right?

thegreatdivide · 26/03/2014 17:27

no
and my vested interest is no less than yours
except mine is more focused on my kids
parents are at your mercy again
and a lot of parents are fed up with striking teachers

gordyslovesheep · 26/03/2014 17:29

my mercy ? why what have I done

natwebb79 · 26/03/2014 17:33

Ok then, we'll stand by and watch thr government turn your children's education to shit without doing anything about it. Would that satisfy you?

thegreatdivide · 26/03/2014 17:34

apologies
parents are at the mercy of striking teachers again

InAGrump · 26/03/2014 17:35

Arf at "a restful learning experience"

YABU

InAGrump · 26/03/2014 17:36

JessePinkmansBitch

nazi government? Really? Get a fucking grip

thegreatdivide · 26/03/2014 17:39

natwebb
wow do you think parents believe that the teachers are striking for altruistic reasons!

sarahquilt · 26/03/2014 17:40

Fed up with teacher bashing here. 2 people in my dep had nervous breakdowns this year due to the enormity of the workload. We get paid shittily for the hours we do and do our best for kids which never seems to be acknowledged. No wonder people are leaving the profession in droves. Striking for fundamental rights is very different to taking a holiday in term time. I personally have no interest in fining people for holidays and am indifferent as long as I don’t have to set work for them while they're gone. It's clear that a lot of commenters on here do not have a clue about the reality of teaching.

natwebb79 · 26/03/2014 17:46

Believe what you like love. Luckily the parents I know read the papers/watch the news and have the intelligence to see through Gove.

natwebb79 · 26/03/2014 17:50

I get the impression the OP is just a goady bugger who doesn't really want to know the reasons behind the strike. To this end I shall stop biting

Topseyt · 26/03/2014 18:15

Can people not just appreciate that teachers are striking because Gove is a twat?

Good on them. I hope he listens but doubt it.

Public services in this country (education, the health service etc.) are normally run by government arseholes ministers who have actually NO experience of the professions they are supposed to be managing. Gove has no experience of teaching at all. He has never taught in his life and he bases everything he does on the only experience he has of schools - i.e. his own time in education when he was s child. He believes this makes him all-knowledgeable.

Striking teachers are losing a day's pay. They are not doing that lightly, or for the good of their health.

NurseRoscoe · 26/03/2014 19:23

If a child has a holiday in term time, they miss out on a week/fortnight however long the holiday is education, which could be a whole topic in certain subjects!

On a teacher's strike, no education is missed as EVERYONE is off school. The work will be caught up on in place of some of the 'fun' days kids have at the end of term or whenever.

There is no need for holidays or day trips in term time. The children have so many school holidays, teacher training days not to mention weekends for family time. School is only optional if you choose to homeschool instead. If ANY part of school was not essential it wouldn't be there. Holidays aren't essential, not everyone can afford them or chooses to take them!

Lots of people choose holidays in term time as they are 'cheaper' this will probably change soon due to the new rules & them not making much money doing them in term time. If it's due to getting time off work, well you wouldn't expect to just not turn up when you didn't have holiday booked and were due to be at work for a week or however long with no consequences so why should it be different for a child who is meant to be at school?

Parliamo · 26/03/2014 19:29

I was starting to get dejavu reading all the same threads pop up from the autumn.

Goady weirdo ressurecting zombie threads. There were enough going already.

pixiepotter · 26/03/2014 19:34

lessons are not happening a child is not missing any input that they will not get a chance to hear again

That is such bollox.Primary schools go over and over the same things time and again

nkf · 26/03/2014 19:35

The two things aren't connected and they are not the same. Cut and paste on every thread on this subject.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 26/03/2014 19:38

People who compare term time holidays and teacher strikes really would benefit from going back to school themselves.

LineRunner · 26/03/2014 19:41

Well, yes, OP, of course you should fine the teachers for striking. Good luck with that one.

Meanwhile, Gove is still a twat.

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plum100 · 26/03/2014 19:42

Whats this thread doing awake? Thought it had already all been said... Again..... And again.... And again.... This is originally from october - how was it even found?

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ravenAK · 26/03/2014 19:51

Couple of goady twats doing advanced search I reckon, plum100.

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plum100 · 26/03/2014 19:57

How sad - seriously - wht is happening to this place ? Why cant it just be like it used to be :(((

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