State teacher in Glastonbury bender?

[Windermerewanderer]

Aibu to think that a head of department in a large state secondary school (of a core subject - English/maths/science) is a CF for taking two days off school to go to Glastonbury?

The school fines parents who take kids out of school for holiday.

Not the first year this has happened.

Money too short for laminating and photocopying but not for two days of cover.

How do you know its paid leave? That's highly unlikely.
Even if he's been given permission to have unpaid leave, he has a pretty good headteacher. I'd have loved to have gone to festivals when I was younger but all my friends went on friday mornings and booked monday off to recover and the bloody things were never in the holidays.

Yeah, and to think, that teacher tips up at 9, leaves at 3.05, and only works during term time.
And now you're saying they're having an extra two days off.
How right you are to be annoyed at a managers decision.

Lucky bastard.
I'd sell a few of my pupils off for a chance to see The Killers in concert again. Instead, I'll be taking 80 12-14 year olds on a residential weekend, back Sunday night, unpaid.

OP you are a shit stirring goady fucker. Or, incredibly dense. You decide.

Let's hope the Teacher doesn't run into any pupils, whose parents phoned in sick for them.

I’m shocked at this. Gives teachers a bad name. I haven’t been to Glastonbury since 2004 when I qualified and knew I’d never be able to go as long as I was a teacher and that’s fair enough. I feel sorry for the poor teachers having to cover the lessons of this selfish individual, whilst they go on their jolly.

Is it any business of yours what the teacher is doing? Do they interfere with your pastimes? I would stop moaning about what other people are doing and realise that teachers are people too.

How CAN the teacher be fully paid for time off? How do you know that? That cannot be true, so sorry I do not believe you. It's not sick leave. Rules in education are very strict for time off.

Moving house you could take a day unpaid, ditto a child or partner's graduation, or a close family member's funeral. That's it.

Yep, and if you finally get to the front of an NHS waiting list during term time, and you can't change the appointment to out of school hours, expect to get grief.

That's been the case in every school I've worked.

I'm going to guess that this bloke has time off in lieu. Which has also never been offered at any school I've worked at!

My daughters class teacher had a week off to go on some trip far away with the Pope, or something.

I wouldn't mind at all if she'd told the children and parents about it when she got back, but nothing. We weren't even told she was going before hand. All very odd. Bet it wasn't a bender though.

Maybe the teacher mention in the OP is head of music and needs to do research.

YABU
My teacher friend saved 2 of his paternity leave days for Glasto. Whether he has a bender or not is his business. It's his time.
Why should teachers be answerable to how they spend their free time?

Yabu.
I hope they have a lovely time.

I've never known anyone to be fined for taking two days off anyway; so that bit of your post is bollocks; the rest is miserable.

Why has everyone on this thread assumed the teacher in question is a man? #patriarchyinaction

Also: total non-issue.

What @WelshMoth said!!!

...I hate to say it, but in the 1990s my secondary school a few miles from Glastonbury used to arrange an inset day for the Friday of "the Pilton Pop" as the festival was known - because 95% of the sixth form and 50% of the teachers were planning to be there (many got free tickets for living nearby, or bought them cheap from people who did).

Lucky bastard.
I'd sell a few of my pupils off for a chance to see The Killers in concert again. Instead, I'll be taking 80 12-14 year olds on a residential weekend, back Sunday night, unpaid.

OP you are a shit stirring goady fucker. Or, incredibly dense. You decide.

Well said, Welsh . Hope your trip goes well don't forget to pack the gin , I find it makes residentials much more fun

Ffs Rabbit loosen up a bit!

My, teacher, daughter gets one well-being day off/year.

It’s not unusual.

I’ve just stopped teaching after 30 years. Never heard of days off in lieu in any school I’ve worked in. Refused permission paid or unpaid to go to an uncle’s funeral in one school. Unpaid leave to take my daughter for an operation. All of this leads me to think the OP is highly unlikely.
That said, if it’s been agreed good luck to the teacher.

YABU

The difference is that if a teacher takes time off, somebody else can teach for them. If a pupil is absent nobody can do their learning for them.

There was me thinking you meant this sort of bender

Yabu and an arsehole.

State teacher in Glastonbury bender?

But one from the private sector would be ok?

Your title would suggest you are after a Daily Mail story

There’s no way that this teacher has been paid, unless he/she has worked overtime - CPD on a weekend, for example. As others have said, the loss of two days pay is equivalent to a fine.
OP, YABVU and a CF.

God forbid a teacher has some time off!! And worse... For FUN?! UNACCEPTABLE!!!!! 🙄