chrismpw
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It means teachers have to use their own time to help these children with the work they have missed.
Totally agree (as a teacher myself) - I have in the past created a bit of a storm when I have suggested to a parents that they were neither paying for private tuition, nor was my course a correspondence course and suggested that they use the money they saved on their cheap holiday to hire a tutor for catch up. Didn't budge - won't ever budge - you make a choice, you pick up the consequences not me.
What I really don't like is that schools take all the flack for these fines, when we're really just collecting a stealth tax for the government. It was nothing schools ever wanted. We just do all the work for it, take the blame, and hand the money on to our overlords. It's like a mafia racket.
I dont like that teachers have training days after having weeks off but thats life
I don't like these days either - but - fact check - these days are days stolen from established summer holidays in the mid 1980s (Thatcher / Ken Baker) and turned into the most dreary dross days any teacher can stomach. They're seldom used for training but for some admin in preparation of an inspection / exams / the latest cure-all initiative dreamed up by some suit in Whitehall. What's more we aren't paid to attend the (initially) voluntary days* - and the week that was stolen means summer holidays are 5 weeks long, not the 6 weeks people still think it is THIRTY years later!
*that's how they started - until nobody turned up to them so they became compulsory.