TackerUK
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Ok are school holidays to long
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No they are not. 8 weeks is fine for me!
43021HST
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They are for Primary school kids, I'm sick of having to wade through waist high treacle whenever I'm in the town centre.
At least my town's quiet.
ralphchadkirk
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Nothing's stopping you staying inside and doing school work for the summer!
Failed Unit
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Long time since they directly effected me, but they were too short IIRC - it was a nice little time to earn loads of money picking fruit. Slave labour but still welcome, then in October we had the Tatties! I think automation has got rid of a lot of the child Labour in these areas.
ralphchadkirk
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Things have changed, I earn my money with a cleaning job and casual data infrastructure work
passmore
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In the good old days, it was all about helping out at your local grocers or earning your keep. School in those days was not a right but a privilege, especially the grammars.
Nowadays, kids don't realise how lucky they are.
Nowadays, kids don't realise how lucky they are.
devon_metro
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School holidays are nothing compared to University Summer break.
I've been off from 1st June (last exam) until approx 20th September.
Then again, unlike a lot of school children, I have a job to keep me occupied.
I've been off from 1st June (last exam) until approx 20th September.
Then again, unlike a lot of school children, I have a job to keep me occupied.
Kernowfem
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God no! The roads are so much quieter and the drive to and from work is all the more pleasurable when the kids are off
However, commuting on the metro in the rush hour is much quieter (i.e. without school kids.)
Many of the local trains in my area are full of primary school age kids on weekdays (middle of the day), when the loadings would be fairly subdued normally.
I have been working 5 - 7 days a week on 8 or 10 hour shifts during my school holidays this year (Sixth Form), so I have barely noticed them really...:roll:. Plus, I have work to do for my courses.
However, I remember having 8 weeks of wonderful freedom and I never really became bored.
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90019
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Things have changed, I earn my money with a cleaning job and casual data infrastructure work
I'm earning money working as a Self Employed Viewing Agent, currently only for one firm of Solicitors, but I'm looking for more work from other Solicitors and Estate Agents
I've been home since mid May. If I go back, I go back on the 12th September, then am home between mid December and back on the 13th February
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No I enjoy the peace and quiet when I leave the house for work at around 8:45am! Living in close proximity to a primary school I usually have to 'give way' to the rush of mothers and kids passing my front gate as I leave and I always enjoy being blocked in by a ridiculous people who can't be arsed parking in the huge FREE car park 100 metres away, they'd prefer leaving their car in the tight back street that backs onto my house and blocks me from getting out, or at the very least having to edge my car through the slaloms of people carriers and estate cars women have abandoned whilst dropping off their offspring! A few weeks of not having to deal with any of this keeps me happy!
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God no! The roads are so much quieter and the drive to and from work is all the more pleasurable when the kids are off
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STEVIEBOY1
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I must say it is easier on the roads and trains with no early morning school kids around.
When I was at school in the 1960s and 1970s, we were given loads of holiday home work to do, even over the long summer holidays. One year I was given a "Bonus" of five hundred lines for being lippy to one of the masters on the last day of term, arm ached for ages afterwards.!
When I was at school in the 1960s and 1970s, we were given loads of holiday home work to do, even over the long summer holidays. One year I was given a "Bonus" of five hundred lines for being lippy to one of the masters on the last day of term, arm ached for ages afterwards.!
TackerUK
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Well only 3 more weeks to go
Eagle
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The holidays are definitely too long for retailers.
I was at IKEA in Coventry on July 31 and they had a big hoarding outside for "Back to University!"
Both UW and CU start this year on October 3. That's nine weeks later.
That's depressing, right?
(Oh, and before anyone starts saying it's ages between the end of exams and the start of next year, my last exam in 2010-11 was on March 18. So there.)
I was at IKEA in Coventry on July 31 and they had a big hoarding outside for "Back to University!"
Both UW and CU start this year on October 3. That's nine weeks later.
That's depressing, right?
(Oh, and before anyone starts saying it's ages between the end of exams and the start of next year, my last exam in 2010-11 was on March 18. So there.)
SS4
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Asda's back to school promotion was on before the kids even broke up. I don't like the kids shouting when they're less than a metre away but to have the back to school before they finished was cruel.
They wake me up in the mornings but then I can get any bus I like without being invaded by noise. Hmmm
They wake me up in the mornings but then I can get any bus I like without being invaded by noise. Hmmm
MidnightFlyer
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I've been off for all bar five days since the end of May :P
Off to college on the 7 September, time has gone soooooooooooooooooooooooo fast
Off to college on the 7 September, time has gone soooooooooooooooooooooooo fast
I've been off for all bar five days since the end of May :P
Off to college on the 7 September, time has gone soooooooooooooooooooooooo fast
Results day(s) before that! Sorry for the reminder.....
MidnightFlyer
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God, please stop
. I can't change anything, so I shouldn't worry about it, however, I am!
God, please stop
You'll do well I'm sure.
I was freaked out about my GCSE results, but strangely I have not worried one bit about my AS results, and not worrying does worry me.
For me, the summer holidays (when i was at school) were far too long, i could have quite happily of got by on 3 weeks, with the other 3 weeks being added to the half-term breaks.
For college, its even worse, breaking up on the 9th June (apart from a 22nd June exam) and going back on the first of September
For college, its even worse, breaking up on the 9th June (apart from a 22nd June exam) and going back on the first of September
90019
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I seem to be unusual in that I don't get particularly nervous before and during exams or when waiting for/getting results
and I've done that the other way round, I was really calm about my GCSEs, but im wooried that ive ballsed up my AS's big style
Eagle
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I seem to be unusual in that I don't get particularly nervous before and during exams or when waiting for/getting results
Neither do I, but then again I've always been great at exams...
Sorry, did that sound like boasting?
90019
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I've never been particularly good at exams, and have been doing gradually worse as I've moved up through school and to uni
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