Term-time holidays don’t stop learning

Re the likelihood of criminalizing guardians who remove youngsters from school in term time (Report, 1 February). It is a weird attitude that conceives that training happens just in school, however in the event that that is the situation I need individuals to consider the contacts caused in schools by divisions removing youngsters from school.

In my time as a head of English, I got protests from GCSE educators in light of the fact that the topography division was taking youngsters for week-long field excursions to Swanage. I likewise got grievances from the history and topography offices when the English division composed outings to theater early shows. At the point when at school myself I didn't appear to experience the ill effects of truanting regularly to get alleviation from educators who suspected that examinations required perpetual practice at taking examinations.

The fixation on tests and examinations makes a sort of exclusive focus that dismisses instruction, which can and will occur wherever a youngster is, regardless of whether in school or at the shoreline in term time.

John Fullman

London

• While no one wishes to see youngsters' training experience the ill effects of delayed occasions in term time, it is futile to have a total boycott. A youngster who endures two or three weeks' ailment doesn't endure irreversible harm to its vocation. Nor does a kid who goes on vacation with its folks. It is delayed and visit periods that are the issue. Why not accordingly present an apportioning framework? A kid is permitted x number of weeks over its school lifetime in times of no longer than a little while at once. Once the proportion has been spent, the qualification vanishes.

This would empower visits to relatives abroad and the intermittent less expensive excursion out of term time and the various legitimate reasons why sporadically families might need to accomplish something out of term time. Be that as it may, it would likewise avert mishandle of the framework.

Arthur Gould

Loughborough

• State schools in England are interested in understudies for 190 days. Contentions utilized as a part of the Isle of Wight case legitimize a 90% participation rate. This implies students can miss 19 school days (just about four school weeks) amid term time! Is this adequate? Ofsted investigations look ominously on school participation rates underneath 95%. Headteachers need to confront yet another unimaginable errand in managing this quandary.