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John McCartney
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4 term year - Ministry fails National Standard in Mathematics Letter to the PPTA News Editor 40 weeks divided by 4 is 10 weeks, unless you are the branch of the Ministry trying to work out the length of a school term. Has anyone told them that 2013 is a non-Rugby World Cup year? Did anyone tell Leslie Longstone vefore she left that 2013 is NOT a leap-year so doesn't need a 12 week term 1? Has anyone told them that 12 week terms are very tiring on students, office staff, teachers and parents who have to put up with grumpy, sick kids. It doesn't require a Commission of Inquiry, a Select Committee hearing, or a six-figure sum of money and a bonuses package for somone to make the 4 term year, equal in term lengths. George Orwell said it best when he said "2+2 = 44....if that is granted, all else follows". I see that next year, 2014 Term 1 is 100-116 half-days, Term 2 88 half-days, Term 3 100half-days and Term 4 98 half-days. Can someone at PPTA contact the Ministry and ask them to divide 40 weeks evenly so that there are no remainders, and to work with 4 equi-numerical whole numbers? Isaac Newton (pseudonym) |
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