'Long summer holidays should end'

[muppet]

As a parent, 6 weeks is far too long to try and occupy kids over the summer - at least not without financial ruin!!!

As a Tech, 6 weeks is great.

 

I agree with others that a good option would be to reduce the holiday from 6 to 4 weeks and then up some of the other hols to 2 weeks.

 

As for carrying work out during term time, especially at evenings and nights, I think that this is a workable solution, however what has not been taken into account is the fact that there are a lot of us out here who are on our own or have limited support.....what would take priority, support during the day or the upgrade at night? Or, as I suspect would happen, work 18 to 20 hour days until it was finished with, if we were lucky, a flat rate of overtime!!!

Before anybody says anything, I know that this is an issue for the school to resolve, but in this time of penny-pinching what is the logical option!?!

 

Just to add another cat to the pigeons, if we were to carry out a lot of the work during term time would we be needed on a fulltime contract? Or would they be reduced to term time plus 2 weeks etc?