I remember using the same phrase myself - although was much to ladylike to hit anyone. :unsure:

 

Well, wasn't like the dirty bugger didn't deserve it for what he no doubt wanted to do to us kids.... <_< Got off lightly with just a whack in the face from a 10-year old if you ask me.. My mum wanted to cut his balls off with a rusty knife.... :lol: :lol:

 

 

I'd agree with uni, make it two years.

 

I've almost completed my first full year, the timetable has been

 

Freshers Week

8 Teaching Weeks

Reading Week (a week off, basically)

4 Teaching Weeks

Christmas Holidays (four weeks)

6 Teaching Weeks

Reading Week

2 Teaching Weeks

Easter Holiday (two weeks)

4 Teaching Weeks

5 Exam Weeks (which I have to sit 6 exams, it could easily just be a fortnight, maybe 3 weeks MAX!)

Summer Holidays (15 weeks)

 

23 weeks holiday a year. Ridiculous!

 

On the whole I would agree, until you get to your final year. I have just finished my degree and I didn't have a spare minute. I spent the long summer before my third year researching my dissertation topic and reading all of my year texts (consider that I have done English so I've studied 3 texts a week, so perhaps 9 novels, 9 plays and 9 poets per term to prep.) We only got Reading Weeks in our first two years. My Christmas holiday was spent doing assessed essays for the modules I'd just completed. Then my Easter was incredibly stressful because I had to complete my 40 page dissertation and revise for exams. Having said that I was finished by the 10th May. I was very angry that my exams were only 7 days after my dissertation, but I am really glad now that I've got time to unwind before employment - an advantage I've got over people who graduate later.

 

As for school holidays, they definitely need the summer as it is to be kids and to develop socially. It is the right amount of time - in my view - because in the last week of the holiday the kids start to get restless, hence it's time to go back to school!. Although I do think that Easter needs balancing out.