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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
When l went to school, yes, over 40 years ago. It was nearly the same as today. The only thing was you needed your brains to sort out questions, instead of computers, with possible answers.
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Yes, well, fear not. The current government are busily ruining the developments in education since then and forcing students to learn via rote rather than learning creative problem solving because, you know, that's key in the workplace now. Rote learning is rigorous.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I simply cannot understand why they six weeks at Summer. Just give them One month, and just add those extra days throughout the year.
Some schools have two weeks Half term - why. Or Easter this year, they had two weeks, why.
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There's been a fortnight in between terms for ages? You want them to take days out of the summer and add them throughout the year, but are complaining about the length of holidays outside of the summer period?
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I school time was 9am start and finish at 3.45.
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Part-timer. I was 9-4.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
Some schools near me start at 8.45 and finish at three
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Yet the kids for the most part leave far better educated than we were. Go figure. Less can sometimes be more.
Marty, you're back on my ignore list again so feel free to not waste your time responding. I have better things to do, even when wasting my time on here, than go back and forth with someone as obstinate as yourself. An authority on everything, utterly incapable of even entertaining anyone else's posting is tiresome. Your prodigious intellect is clearly wasted working in construction, you should be Professor of Everything in a red brick university.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Interesting ... missus' SLA contract gives her 4 weeks paid holiday, to be taken as they arise, but not only is she unpaid for the summer break, she's not actually employed during that period. Nevertheless her salary is paid in 12 equal instalments.
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The contract here is somewhat different. Teachers are employed over the summer break by the LA however they are not paid for it. They are paid for the legally mandated minimum period of holidays and anything after those is unpaid.
This is how it's supposed to work in theory. Works quite differently on a day-to-day basis, at least in all the schools my wife has worked.