To think that a teacher shouldn't go on a 6 week holiday during term time and on the runup to SATs

[SparklyGothKat]

Ds1's teacher has gone on a 6 week holiday, and the class are having a different sub. teacher each day.. They are doing their year 6 SATs in may....

are you sure you have all the facts?
is it really a holiday?!!

yes its a cruise.. the teacher told the class

Sounds v unlikely to me! Teachers are hardly ever granted a day's leave of absence for non-bereavement reasons and six weeks!!

I reckon this is entirely wrong info

Seems a bit odd to me that the Head would ok it- what do the teachers on here think?

If it IS a holiday and it is not being covered properly, then no, yanbu. However, sometimes in primary, a teacher may be going for an operation but prefers the pupils to think it is a holiday so they don't worry or so they don't have to give details. Or it could be a sabbatical.

You don't get holiday in term time.
There must be a mix up.

it won;t be a cruise. it will probably be some private reason she does not wish to share with the class, none of my teacher friends take time off in school time

I thought that too, but its a cruise. Ds1 would not get that wrong, though I do wonder if its a cover story for something

x-posted - must be unpaid though. Still very unusual...wonder if there are exceptional circs?

Oh, and don't worry about the SATs - they are the school's problem, not your ds's.

Would be far more concerned about it not being covered sufficiently consistently, rather than where the teacher is tbh.

The teacher may have made an ironic remark in an unguarded moment. It is never a good idea when you are primary teacher.

I would agree with sassy and compo that there is probably more to this than you have been told.

Strongly suspect that she has not gone on holiday. I reckon there is something else going on and she told the class she was going on a cruise so as not to worry them.

I suggest you raise this with the headteacher to put your mind at rest, and ask if there are plans to get a longer term supply teacher rather than a different supply every day. TBH though, I'd imagine the school are just as worried about the SATS as you are.

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hysterectomy?

serious illness?

surgery?

admission to rehab centre?

could be any number of things, least likely of which is a holiday

no head would sanction an absence of that length for anything other than something along the line of a bereavement or stay in hospital, most won't even give a long weekend to attend a sibling's wedding

Yes, thinking about it, there is no way their teacher would leave them without good reason, and wonder if she said it was a cruise on the spur of the moment, when questioned by pupils. I thought that teachers could not have time off without good reasons and defo. not for a holiday myself but Ds1 was insisting she has gone on holiday

I wouldn't worry about SATs anyway. They have no bearing on your child's life.

The teacher is manifestly off sick with something long term and unpleasant, and did not want to share the details with her class. Of course teachers do not go off for half a term on a whim. Grief!

DD's teacher has said the same thing to the class as a joke - she is 7 months pregnant and due to go on maternity leave

There is no way she really is on a cruise. Definitely a cover story to explain an absense due to illness or bereavement.

She's probably going for a gynae op. Hysterectomies can need 6 weeks off.

I doubt she would tell a class of Year 6 children she was going to have an op on her womany bits!

It won't be a holiday. The only way that it could be a holiday is if she was new to the post and they honoured a holiday that she had already booked, but I think they would be unlikely to appoint someone who was having half a term off!

no she is an older teacher, who has been at the school years. Lovely lady, I should have thought it through, of course she is not on holiday duh!! (at myself)