Longer School Days Being Proposed For Next Year

I think its all wrong for the kids that did do the work at home

It’s the school staff I feel sorry for. No doubt they will have to work longer for no extra pay.

I can not see personally as a problem especially at the end of the day, so many parents turn up late for their kids anyway and the early ones stand around chatting until 4pm.

I hope our will not do this,my kids never missed any homework,did all what they suppose to. My oldest starts at 8.40am and finishing at 3.20pm,my little one starts at 9am and finishing at 3pm, I dont wanna have any extra time ,had enough of waiting 40 min every day .

For the purposes of giving them a chance after the disruption of covid I'd do so many things which people will probably have a problem with .

For starters I'd say for the next 3-4 years scrap all teacher training days or days where they have inset days or anything where they are not in classrooms .

In the same scenario I would not have the half terms and just go for the bing 2 week holidays with the exception of the summer holidays but I'd change that to 4 weeks rather than 6 weeks .

To boost numbers of teachers I'd not only do the bursarys which they scrapped for healthcare workers and do the same with teachers or people working in the education industry will not go to Uni and come out with 10's of thousands of pounds worth of debt .

An extra half an hour a day isn't going to do any harm. On the other hand, it still isn't fair on all of the kids, parents and teachers who have worked hard during the lockdowns. I imagine it was very stressful at times.

I feel for the teachers ad kids

Do t they know tea hers have families aswell

Nothing like that from our school yet. Hopefully they won't do it, but they might just send the message really late. As for decision, it's stupid. Kids spend too much time at school, come home tired and then they still have to do homework. Making the day longer will not reduce homework. so they will have to sleep less... They would better get read of all those assemblies, tutor time when most of the kids do nothing and all those inserts, training and wellbeing days...

My daughter in law is a teacher and says she’s not been told this yet. Maybe it’s area related.

I understad they are trying to catch them up but their just kids and its not fair on those who did do all the work. They should just have those who didnt do school work stay a little extra