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Get the ingredients right and we're more than half way there!

 
On Monday, the government will debate school holiday arrangements and whether or not parents should be able to take their kids out of school to go on holiday in term time and thereby save money. Travel broadens the mind, adds to knowledge, increases tolerance and builds confidence. If these are not the vital ingredients of a good education - what are? So, yes - let families go on holiday in term time, but make an agreement with them that the kids will produce a 'blog' on the destination and experience when they come back, for the benefit of their classmates. Better still, follow the European example and stagger school holidays on a regional basis, so that the cost of holidays doesn't peak in the way it does now. It's not rocket science we're talking about - just common sense (also a vital ingredient of a good education)!

 

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Jimmy Martin

SPAA President

22 February 2014
 
 

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Thursday 27 February : 84th Annual SPAA DinnerCrowne Plaza, Glasgow

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