Arriving back at school after the half-term break, I was wondering, as is often the case after a holiday, where the week went and why I was not feeling slightly more rested than on the usual Monday morning. This got me thinking about holidays.
Teachers are always a bit sensitive about holidays. When you tell someone that you are a teacher, often the first thing they say is something along the lines of: “I wish I had such long holidays.” To the non-teaching world, it is not fair that teachers have this fantastic 13 weeks of holiday each year, during which they can travel, relax, do all sorts of adventurous things and generally have lots of “time off”.
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