To want to give up teaching for more holidays?

[Nonotthisone]

I know that’s contradictory but we have preschool children and while I’ve been on maternity leave it’s been so nice to have holidays in term time.

Is it insane to think of giving up? I know it is really …

But once your children are 4/5 then you can't go outside of term time anyway.

Sorry you can only.

Been up since 5 and it's not going well for my mental faculties

What do you think you might do which would be more flexible ?

I think you'd be very silly to give up a safe job which will save you a hell of a lot of money in childcare fees over the school holidays.

Also, once your children start school, you couldn't go outside of school holidays anyway.

But we have 13 weeks a year- very handy for the 11 compulsory years in school.

Ummmm but your kids won't be able to take term time holidays

Do you mean just breaks for you?

Yeah you'll only enjoy it for 2 or 3 years before BOOM scrabbling to make annual leave days meet with 25 days annual leave days per year and barely any cross over annual leave to spend a holiday together with partner.

In a year or so you be restricted to school holidays or you get fined. I'll stay with a job that allows that...

Assuming you're going to get another job, how do you think you'll make your 23 odd days of annual leave cover all the school holidays as easily as you will if remaining teaching?

I left teaching (not to take term time holidays) and I have never been happier.

As others have said, you can’t take children out of school for holidays (except you can but expect a fine) but I could never afford the holidays out of term time so my kids just never had holidays.

If you want to give up teaching that’s one thing but seems drastic to do so for the holidays.
having said that I have moved from teaching to a private sector role. 25 holidays plus 10 flex plus bank holidays means that the school holidays are really not that much of a problem. We need to use holiday clubs for 3 weeks this year and that’s with me and DH taking holiday at the same time.

Eh?

You've answered your own question in both the opening and closing whole part of your OP.

find a job at a private school. Problem solved!

I wouldn't feel right commenting on whether you should leave teaching in general or not work for other reasons etc. But for this reason yabu.

You have a huge advantage, even with pre-school children, because your partner has much more flexibility with their A/L than most other people. They only have to cover the odd inset or sick day and all of the rest of their leave can be used to suit your family.

In most families where both parents work, they have only 1 or maybe 2 weeks in the whole year where they're off together. The rest of the time they have to take it in turns because there is so much holiday time to cover.

Plus when your children are at school you can only go away in school holidays anyway.

Could you do supply until kids are in school?

You wouldn't need to give it up completely. You could do supply work while your dc are little and then go back to a permanent job when they're older.

Where I am in wales children can have ten authorised days off for holiday a year. Maybe op is somewhere similar.

however op as someone who also works termtime- yes it’s frustrating the difference in holiday cost but you don’t have to pay any holiday childcare at all. Which would cost more in the long run. I will be waiting till my kids are older and have left school to change jobs

Supply is a possibility.

I know it’s daft really. And of course people are right, there’s only one year before one is school age but in a way that’s what makes it even more precious.

100%

In Scotland you can take as many as you like, in effect. No fines.

Give up teaching for less holidays just not tied to school holidays but then very soon be tied to them anyway?
My parents were teachers, it was great, we had lots of (not expensive) holidays and lots of time at home too. My DM really found it quite hard to comprehend when I started working that I had initially 4 weeks then 5 and that was it. Holiday with DH or spend a week decorating the house or visit them - not 'and'.

Maybe you could do supply instead of FT for the next year or maybe longer but you'd be daft to change to any other sort of job with the idea of 'more holiday'.

As a teacher I say your reasoning is insane. Assuming you’re in England you’re going to be tied to taking your holidays out of term time very soon anyway.

however, as a teacher who is twelve years in and paid in the leadership scale and completely wage trapped, I would say if you can afford to leave teaching and begin at the bottom of almost any other career, then I’d say run, don’t walk, away from the profession now.

This! My family who are teachers seem to have no idea how it feels to squeeze all the things you need and want to do, plus manage your children's childcare over their own holidays, in your 4 or 5 weeks of annual leave. I know teaching is incredibly hard, but leaving because of the holidays seems crazy.

You would be insane.

school holidays are what keeps me doing the job, at least until they’re all old enough to fend for themselves.

More holiday time? Which other job would give more than 13 weeks holiday?