“What I would love to see is a slower school day where students have study periods, but they're not bringing home hours of homework,” she said.“We just ease ourselves and have a nicely paced relaxed atmosphere.”Dearbhal, a secondary school teacher, said running the school term for an extra month would “create problems organisationally.”
“Secondary school teachers got 11 weeks holidays in the summer and correcting exams takes three and a half weeks.”Dearbhal said students who are part of the “very pressured system” deserve the time to relax in the summer.Dearbhal acknowledged that there are students who rely on school as a safe space during the academic year, and the 11-week summer break may be “quite problematic.”
Chairs were placed on the desks in an empty classroom at the Freiherr-vom-Stein School in Gütersloh. Photo: David Inderlied/dpaMarsha, a schoolteacher from Dublin, said the school holidays are not too long, as marking examinations is necessary extra money for teachers.