Women who only look full-time.

[weeder]

To be getting fed up with my Pilates and yoga teachers who quit class for weeks on end during school holidays? They are not part time the rest of the year, I get in to a pattern of going every week at the same time and then find, usually at about Easter, that they don't cover school holidays and I have to find elsewhere to go. I know it's their choice etc and I don't mean a couple of weeks holiday, I mean up to 7 weeks.

"These classes are paid for in advance and I think most people would carry on all year."
It seems to me she paid in advance assuming she was receiving a year round service (with reasonable weeks off)

Ignoring what I assume are either typos or language issues in the title the OP is BU. Many adult education classes are term time only. To assume classes should run 52 weeks a year is wrong. My pilates and yoga classes at the local health club run in blocks of ten weeks, paid in advance and no refund if I miss a session. Very few teachers are salaried, even pro-rata for the terms they work; they are self employed and often paid per hour they work at a gym or have an arrangement with the company.

If someone is either self employed by renting the space, takes a percentage of lesson fees or is paid per class it is often not worth their while financially to carry on over the summer. Lots of clients are away over the summer, are attending other events or can't get the child care to attend class. If not enough people turn up they may be out of pocket or be teaching a class for little or no financial reward.

There are some really good DVDs out there for the breaks between classes. The OP has had some basic training by attending the classes, so should understand the correct techniques. So she should be able to practise by herself with or without a DVD. Unless you are attending several classes a week you should be doing this between classes anyway, if they are going to have any effect.

Weeder- as I said, check, ours did used to offer all classes all year round, but then as it's a "yummy mummy" town, they found little demand in the holidays so have holiday programmes (a lot less classes), and some specialist classes (like yoga) are run by self employed people who set their own hours (given availability of the rooms to hire), not club employees. Usually the classes that require additional payment on top of normal membership fees are the ones that stop. But again, worth checking.

Should the title read Women who only work term time instead of Women who only look full time?

Lots of men only look full time/work term time. My DC's swimming instructor for one. He has no children of his own, but explained that attendance during the school holidays was not high enough and the majority of his clients preferred term-time only lessons (as, presumably, they have a different schedule during the school holidays)

If you attend classes at a big gym then, yes, I'd expect there to be cover for the holidays. If you're doing a class at your local village hall then I'd say this is to be expected.