Half-term

It's school holidays time and I'll be away for the next week, which means I'll miss all the fun. Be good while I'm away.

Comments

[dearieme]

I am disgusted to learn that schools in rural Scotland have adopted the mimsy habit of half-term holidays, It didn't happen in my day.

[Clothcap]

BH, Thanks for your cool efforts. Have a nice break.
dearieme, the kids were likely less of a handful in your day and less tiring to teach.

[Robert E. Phelan]

Real teachers don't need no stinkin' holidays. ;>]

Take lots of snaps and post them when you get back. Enjoy.

[Frugal Dougal]

I remember the half-term hols well. I hope you have a good one, and come back refreshed to give us the benefit of your indispensable grumpiness.

[kandastoney]

Dearieme must be pre-Elizabethan, the "tattie" holidays for schools have been around for as long as farms have been able to prevail on schools to release kids as labour to lift the crop in October.
Very character forming in my day, of course kids learning that earning money in the fields is back breaking, so possibly it's better to apply oneself at school is probably not the message sent out these days.

[dearieme]

Bah: tattie howkin' was not allowed in my school except for the lowest streams. Nor did it occur in the other two terms. Kick their precious little arses and set them back to their books. Christ, you'll be wanting indoor bogs next.

[Kit]

Chatting to my Mum and she still calls this holiday the Potato Holiday. The timing of the holiday was down to the local farmers on when they needed the kids to pick the potatoes. Big strapping lads, like my Uncle, were in demand and could command good money.

[Carlotta]

Bother. I wanted to read your reaction to the idea that Badman suggested at the Select Committee hearing that a suitable education must include some knowledge about the effect of carbon emissions!

Hope you had a nice break.

[Bishop Hill]

He said what????!!

[Jeff Wood]

"He said what????!!"

It's reflex now.

Remember when every trivial business product was an "executive" gizmo? Tacking on global warming/climate change/carbon emissions to an proposal, however unrelated, seems relevant and up-to-date.

Not to mention, keep feeding propaganda to the kiddies. These days they are the only group who might believe it.