It is clearly irresponsible though for a number of reasons. There's no need for four weeks' holiday - if she wants such a long honeymoon she should marry over summer. Also her job role is about maintenaning the smooth operation of the school, and by expecting her deputy and the other teaching staff to assume that responsibility for a whole month she's putting pressure on them which could very easily distract from their duty to the children. Four consecutive weeks of holiday time during term is not a luxury that should be available to any teacher, much less the head. I think to say she was "naive" is frankly being kind. She deserves the anger she's receiving.

 

 

Watch out, Cassandra will be down on you like a ton of bricks! :P

Edited April 22, 201411 yr by Common Sense

I'm still not sure how she got this approved. I doubt I'd be able to unless I was seriously ill.

It is clearly irresponsible though for a number of reasons. There's no need for four weeks' holiday - if she wants such a long honeymoon she should marry over summer. Also her job role is about maintenaning the smooth operation of the school, and by expecting her deputy and the other teaching staff to assume that responsibility for a whole month she's putting pressure on them which could very easily distract from their duty to the children. Four consecutive weeks of holiday time during term is not a luxury that should be available to any teacher, much less the head. I think to say she was "naive" is frankly being kind. She deserves the anger she's receiving.

Yeah, but any worker has the right to this kind of thing if their employer approves it. Do you think it would've been approved by the governors if these concerns hadn't already been dealt with? That's the thing I loathe about these kinds of stories - they only ever come with the headline without accounting for the fact that the rest of the staff may be totally able and fine to fill in, without accounting for the headteacher's work before this unpaid leave, without accounting for how much of a difference it's going to make in practice.

Watch out, Cassandra will be down on you like a ton of bricks! :P

The difference is that Jark doesn't make disingenuous moronic comparisons as you do, even after being pulled up on them.