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Thursday 17 July 2025 17:38:07 GMT
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E R :
People forget that school is there to educate children not to make parents’ lives easier. Teachers are not childminders.
2025-07-17 18:21:26
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Laura La Lang 🥂🍾✈️ :
Why don’t the parents take the holidays unpaid…. just like the school staff do?
2025-07-17 18:41:20
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Charlotte Brown :
Not schools fault, School is not free childcare it’s a education system.
2025-07-22 21:14:29
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Ybfbfbfbf :
The children need the breaks. It’s not for us teachers. The children are absolutely exhausted at the end of half-term/term.
2025-07-17 19:04:10
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lorakusanagi :
school isn't childcare. it's education. and people are choosing to have kids despite all these challenges and knowing that these holidays are not a new thing.
2025-07-17 18:02:54
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Piano Ballads :
Why are we putting pressure on schools instead of putting pressure on our employers? If everyone asked for the summer off, employers might get the message
2025-07-17 18:07:51
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Popcorn :
As a teacher we need the 6 weeks due to all of the time we work over hours during the school term. Mental health of staff is already suffering so much due to work load. We also need it to plan lessons for the next year. To top it off staff only get paid for term time and their wages are spead across the year, this means more money having to be put into education if the six weeks is shorter. From the students perspectives they need this time off. The closer to the six weeks we get the more irritable, tired and frustrated the kids get. Modern education is so full on for students that they need the break.
2025-07-17 18:19:59
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Rachel :
Schools are not childcare. Please stop perpetuating the idea that schools are a place for children to be housed when their parents are working and that the school calendar should consider childcare as a reason for change. Schools are there to educate children and on top of this are already responsible for a huge amount of community social care.
2025-07-17 18:08:21
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Chelss leighh :
I just think there needs to be better system for working mums I was constantly forced to get job or my benefits would be sanctioned and my daughter was 3 no help no childcare in the area I don’t drive I love working my job is great but I feel like I spend more money in half terms on childcare than I am spending time with her and breaks my heart 😩
2025-07-22 11:49:12
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wahabegum :
It's more that the workplace hasn't caught up with people's lifestyles. We should all get more time off
2025-07-17 17:48:03
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Kallie :
The world isn’t made for working mums, fact.
2025-07-17 20:20:03
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KateCarter24 :
School is not your free childcare!!
2025-07-17 18:24:28
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Bagelgril :
Issue here isnt school - its the cost of summer holiday clubs and daycare
2025-07-17 18:24:29
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Bunny Mcdougal :
School isn’t childcare. The children are extremely tired at the minute. They need a break and to be with their families too. I know it’s a massive financial burden but it’s the government and the cost of living that’s at fault
2025-07-17 17:58:06
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Farah :
How about we talk about more flexible jobs or fixing our broken economy. As a mum I want to see my kids for those 18 summers of their childhood please
2025-07-17 19:04:06
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Mandycayley :
I work in a school and I love the kids, but if I didn’t have that time off, I think I’d have a Breakdown. We don’t get paid for our holidays which is fine cause that’s what we’ve chose. The children are exhausted. We’re not Babysitting. We are there teaching the children. It can be really difficult specially when you’re having children that struggle within school with behaviour learning difficulties and many violent students . we’re even having to buy our own glue sticks our own resources because the money just isn’t there schools are suffering at the moment it’s a really tough place to be. When you work with children, it’s not because of the money you really do just wanna make a difference to our children’s education and lives and well-being along with safeguarding protecting our children. while trying to cover your bills..
2025-07-17 20:18:48
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Dan1986 :
Set school holidays should be abolished, you should get an allowance of 8 weeks in the year ( bank holidays excluded ) and you can book them dates whenever you want up to a maximum of 15 consecutive school days at a time. Teachers should work later ( 5:30) to plan like everyone else
2025-07-17 20:02:24
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Kitty :
School isn't childcare
2025-07-17 19:05:23
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dylan_grace_ :
What about the children’s wellbeing??? Kids will get burnt out
2025-07-17 18:23:44
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N :
It's simple, if one parent can't stay at home to take care of the kids then you shouldn't have had them.
2025-07-17 20:01:44
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Kristy-lee :
Teachers have all bank holidays off 6 weeks in the summer time. 2 weeks for Easter 2 weeks for October 1 week for whitsun and 2 weeks for Xmas. But you feel like you need the break! How about the family’s that can only have 10 annual holidays off a year or the self employed that can’t have time off that need to put these children in childcare that is just absolutely astronomically expensive! Change the Easter holidays to 1 week take 2 weeks off the summer holidays give that to parents to be able
2025-07-17 19:21:36
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Ilenya Nocivelli :
What about teachers who don’t want a shorter break because they work hard all year ???
2025-07-17 18:10:51
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Samnliam20 :
Do not take those holidays off those kids.
2025-07-17 18:30:45
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GreenWitch :
So do they think schools are going to remain open for free? If you stay open for another 6 weeks you’ll need to increase the wages of everyone - not just teachers, but caretakers, receptionist, cleaners, tas, cooks, finance team, and everyone - proportionately. Where does that funding come from when everything is already chronically underfunded?
2025-07-17 20:58:31
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Bex :
Sorry but what are people using their annual leave for if not for school holidays?! I’m not saying the whole 6 weeks summer holidays but surely for a few of them weeks!
2025-07-17 18:36:09
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