Jon Platt Term Time Holidays

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Glad he won his case, can't see any harm in a kid having a week out of the school year to have a proper holiday. Been looking to book abroad for next year and the cost of term time versus half term is ridiculous, not just a few hundred quid, was about £1600 when I looked.

With the £1600 I save I can pay someone to come in and mop up your tears for the week.
 

Bungle said:
Glad he won his case, can't see any harm in a kid having a week out of the school year to have a proper holiday. Been looking to book abroad for next year and the cost of term time versus half term is ridiculous, not just a few hundred quid, was about £1600 when I looked.

With the £1600 I save I can pay someone to come in and mop up your tears for the week.
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Yeah? Would they be able to work as hard as our brave teachers, enslaved into their profession? I don't think so!
 
jal123 said:
It's almost like they were forced into the career and couldn't have done anything else at all, then they moan at getting almost 3 months a year off because they stay late a few nights a week.
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If it was an inessential career I'd agree. But we need teachers.

Yes the school system is poor and the focus on exam results over anything else is stupid. But teachers would be the first to say that.
 
There's no actual right to a package holiday, it's not an entitlement by law.

I do however think the pricing is a bit rum for school time holidays so it does naturally drive parents to see better value outside of these parents. Also on the basis that holidays for the parents are probably easier to obtain than in term time.

There's a whole six weeks holiday period in the summer though with fluctuating prices so that's probably a better option.

Rather than the travel agents and tour operators fixing the prices for school holidays I think you'll find it's the hotels who put the rates up. Plus natural demand over that period will reduce capacity in hotels and planes so it creates its own expensive market.

Bottom line: if a parent wants to take their child out of education then it's up to the parent I reckon.
 
sageyefc said:
Is jon gails ex husband?
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chicoazul said:
There's no actual right to a package holiday, it's not an entitlement by law.

I do however think the pricing is a bit rum for school time holidays so it does naturally drive parents to see better value outside of these parents. Also on the basis that holidays for the parents are probably easier to obtain than in term time.

There's a whole six weeks holiday period in the summer though with fluctuating prices so that's probably a better option.

Rather than the travel agents and tour operators fixing the prices for school holidays I think you'll find it's the hotels who put the rates up. Plus natural demand over that period will reduce capacity in hotels and planes so it creates its own expensive market.

Bottom line: if a parent wants to take their child out of education then it's up to the parent I reckon.
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Strong words!
 
COYBL25 said:
It's the holiday companies that should be getting done.

You can argue market forces all you want, but when you treble the price of a holiday the moment the kids break up its nothing but a pure rip.
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Why mate? Aren't they allowed to make profit? As I said above its more the hotels than holiday companies who already have to subsidise an endemic of compensation culture.

The British have some of the cheapest flight and holiday deals in the whole of Europe.
 

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