Term time holidays court cases dropped

Statistics can be dressed up to suit whatever point people are determined to defend. 

Some would say that teachers get no income for the other 170 days of the year that they are never in work and the schools are then closed.  others say that teachers continue to receive income for those days.  

That's relatively unimportant,-----what matters is that according to an earlier poster I think it was Cornersteady, who said that children do not miss out on any education, in fact their education improves, if they receive regular texts instead of attending school.    

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"Texts from schools to parents about tests and homework can boost secondary pupils' maths grades by the equivalent of a month in class, research suggests.

Thre you go that's a month they can have off in term time then"

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That's good news for local authorities as they could shut the schools, lay off most of the teachers and provide a much better education for the pupils. Great cost effectiveness most would say. 

 K 

And the report although it has been ignored by the usual attempt to skew the debate,  is the texts are to remind parents about homework and exams that are due,as the 3 of the 4 different schools our  grandsprogs attend seem to find that it is very helpfull
in this age of computer games and smart phones as it keeps "frazzeld parents up to speed"to remind said sprogs what they are really supposed to be studying 

We always took both my sons out of school, until they went to Grammar School - sometimes one week, added on to another holiday, sometimes for two.  My OH had his holidays 'chosen' for him, and either we went away together then, or missed a holiday.  Both were given work to do whilst away - and had to do their own scrapbook of their trips with the homework as part of it - they were set geography,  maths, science and english studies - simple things at first which could be done on any holiday no matter where, but then increasingly complex, and I remember my OH being involved in several 'experiments'. The school seemed well set up for 'holiday homework' and it never appeared to be last minute stuff, pulled together by a teacher.

When they were eleven we bought a caravan, and some Camping Cheques, so that we could continue to holiday in France - and at that time my OH got to choose his own holiday dates.  We carried on caravanning with them during school holidays until they were sixteen, and both came with us again, aged eighteen.  Both still camp - and the youngest has just been down to Argeles for a week, and then met us on site in the Ardeche.  

One is now Head of Science at a girl's school in London, and the other runs a successful business.  Both now speak good French, despite not being interested at school. 

I'm glad to see that the court cases are being dropped, and I hope that schools began to cope with these holidays without resorting to penalising parents and children.

In the real world, the vast majority of real people have as CY says their pay quoted on an annual basis. Payment intervals can be monthly or weekly.  also most people in the real world in full time employment, work for many more days per year than a mere 195.

I disagree with placing fines on parents for taking their kids out of primary school to allow them to go on holiday at a time when their parents have their annual holidays.

K