In education, teachers have up to thirteen weeks ‘off’ a year as non-term time, although a good teacher never truly stops working. There has been talk for a while now that there are plans, or rumours more so, that teachers should be allowed up to two weeks paid holiday a year during term time; but can this be done?
Many parents in modern times simply take their children out of school as the savings they receive are a lot less than the fine they will get from the school. If you can save thousands of pounds on a holiday for a £60 fine from your child’s school, why wouldn’t you?
How Can a Paid Holiday Work?
How can it be done then? Two ideas, first, which is the unlikeliest of the two; the government would fund it. By having additional funding from a ‘pot’ to cover this period, it would have a huge impact on teacher retention and generally, will provide a massive boost to teacher recruitment. The second, and more realistic, is that the teachers ‘buy’ the time buy completing ‘overtime’ via intervention work or booster classes during non-term time.
What do you think? Would two weeks paid holiday during term time work for you? Let Rikama Education know!