To think we should do away entirely with school holidays?

[SkaPunkPrincess]

Just musing and wondering why we don't just do away with them entirely?

Run schools like a regular workplace in that they operate 52 weeks of the year, Teachers and students to get 4 weeks allocated holiday allowance per year and parents can use this at their discretion. Staff would be able to be more flexible and they would have more time in the year to teach children at a more realistic pace?

Am I missing why this isn't a genius idea?

@AllMYSmellySocks I have a child with anxiety and she finds it such a long, hard day and in the holidays is so much more chilled out and happy. For the teachers managing all these different children I can't imagine how tricky it must be!

Totally agree with summer

Op you have clearly never worked in a school! Teachers are crawling to the holidays by the end of term.. I doubt many would continue to teach if the holidays were 4 weeks. I urge you to work in a school for year then look at your OP. You will laugh!

Agree with PPs about teaching - I spent the first 2 days of the half term holiday sleeping! I have some school work to do this holiday but just need a few days off first before I can face it.

@SkaPunkPrincess - if the teachers and the children have a holiday allocation that they can take when it suits them (or their parents, in the case of the children), how are the schools every going to deliver the curriculum?

Efficient delivery of the curriculum relies on having most or all of the children present for as much of the time as possible, because they need to learn things in the right order, and because it is the most efficient use of teaching time for them to teach each part of the curriculum to the whole class.

If different children miss different bits of a particular part of the curriculum, the teacher will end up trying to teach different parts of it to different children, and trying to remember who has done what, so they all get the full picture in the end - all this at the same time as differentiating the work for the different abilities in the class - it would be a total nightmare - surely you can see that?

Why can't the kids and teachers have the sMe 5.6 weeks the rest of the uk are entitled to legally?

Schools are there to provide an education in some areas the rest og your child's education is down to the parents. Children may fall back accademically over the long summer break but their personal, social and physical delevlopment should move on in leaps. Unfortunately for some children their experiences mean this doesn't happen so some clubs and activities to catvh these kids in the holidays would help.

Let kids be kids, they are going to work, on the whole, a whole lot longer than our generation will.

YABU

My school weeks are crazy. School in the mornings, kids come home for lunch here, afternoons younger ones are at home and my eldest has therapies. I am literally in the car every afternoon and I work for myself on a morning.

School holidays, I relaaaaax. It's amazing. The kids and I chill. We play in our garden, with our toys. We read. We make art. We swim. I literally hang on for those moments.

We would all burn out otherwise.

The problem seems to be that schools have become places for childcare as well as places of education as parents have to work. The two should be separate ( if you get my drift)

Are you shitting me?

Dd - year 9 - works tucking hard at school during the terms and NEEDS holidays.

All dc need time off to see friends , chill out, play... they are not mini adults. If they were at school all the time, when would we go on holiday and see new things?

Of course instead we could make workplaces more flexible for parents, so that childcare isn't such of an issue.

If the OP thinks it's such good idea, she might do some research and find where this has been done, and its effects.

I didn't think I could read anything more absurd than your first post.

Then I read your second post. I haven't read any more as it's too painfully stupid .

I would like to see this, my DS has been in nursery since 6 months old and school is just another day to him.

Since he started reception he has been bemused by school holidays, he has actually asked why they are needed (loves school!)

I am less bemused by the sheer lack of options for holiday childcare, despite our school having a privately run wrap around setting..

Not sure anyone has ever wished for more time off in February rather than the summer!

PTW1234

Bemused by the school holidays.....
you're poor kid 🤦🏻‍♀️

*your

Who said children need to be doing the full curriculum the whole year?

Or even if it was spread out and there was less focus on meeting target so by certain terms, I am sure a year round school, properly managed would benefit most children.

Slower paced, is what I think of a year long school.

How is he a poor kid?

Last summer he spent it travelling down the grand canal in Venice.. he is some latch key kid who doesn’t see his parents.

He is 5 and having school holidays is strange to him.. because he has been in nursery since he was 6 months and doesn’t know what a school holiday is.

Great support of working parents..

@PTW1234 free year long childcare is what you think of a year long school year.

Where is the government going to find the money to fund the extra hours for teachers, TAs and support staff? It isn't viable. The profession is already suffering.

Isnt*

PTW1234
I am a full time working parent.
My son is 4.
If he becomes bemused with school holidays, I will be horrified. Please don't make generalisations

YABU. We all need a break, kids more than others.
I wouldn't expect a child in year 3 to live life like adults do working full time.

Well it wouldn’t be extra hours in my opinion, it would open more jobs and allow more teaching staff to take holidays “in term”. Where they don’t get ripped off..

'Open more jobs'
Again I ask, where is this extra money coming from?
Budgets are already the lowest they can possibly be.