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Originally Posted by martyh
Teachers are salaried over 12 months ,they get paid for the 13 weeks holiday ,it doesn't matter how you try to spin it .
The main problem in my opinion is that contracted hours are almost equal to term time which is a problem .Why can't teachers be contracted to work all year round with 5.6 minimum weeks holiday the same as everyone else ? That way they wouldn't be doing so much work out of hours .
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Teachers are not paid for the 13 weeks holiday. Try reading one of their contracts. It doesn't matter how you try to spin it, that's the contract. Changing them to the same holiday periods as other workers means paying them more as their contracted hours go up. I doubt that the government have any appetite for that.
A large part of the work teachers do out of hours is planning and marking. Planning is dependent on previous lessons, marking has to be done in a timely fashion else Ofsted get upset.
A lot of the work teachers do is reactive to events during contact time. What do you suggest teachers do working for weeks on end with no contact time? They can't plan their lessons for the next year. They can't save their marking up.