Longer and longer holidays

spicyayam

I hope everyone had a relaxing day yesterday. I know we have many holidays in Bali for various ceremonies, which of course I don't have a problem with. But it does seem like a one day holiday becomes extended to days off before and after the ceremonies. For example at my son's school they marked off 8/9 for Nyepi. He went today, but none of the teachers showed up. Only the security guard was there. Galungan also seems to be at a week long holiday. It is kind of related to the school thread and makes me think even if your kids go to a regular school, you need to do some kind of homeschooling for the time off they have, not mention the difficulty of trying to run a business. Has it always been like this? or maybe I am just getting older.

calma

don't forget that many of the children going to less, private lessong a few hours after they finish school, at least in Ubud and Denpasar area, I don't know on the north.

davita

spicyayam wroteI hope everyone had a relaxing day yesterday. I know we have many holidays in Bali for various ceremonies, which of course I don't have a problem with. But it does seem like a one day holiday becomes extended to days off before and after the ceremonies. For example at my son's school they marked off 8/9 for Nyepi. He went today, but none of the teachers showed up. Only the security guard was there. Galungan also seems to be at a week long holiday. It is kind of related to the school thread and makes me think even if your kids go to a regular school, you need to do some kind of homeschooling for the time off they have, not mention the difficulty of trying to run a business. Has it always been like this? or maybe I am just getting older.

That's why it's called BALI....it's an acronym for BAnyak LIbor...:lemo:

Markit

Just as comparison I went from working in the US (1 week holiday a year if you are very lucky and please donate it back to the company if you want to be considered for promotion) to Germany where they have 6 weeks (30 days with masses of national holidays where if one falls on a Thursday or Tuesday you automatically get the middle day thrown in for good fun) that you legally have to take. I once figured out that in a year of 365 days I'd only worked a total of 176 with the rest being holidays and weekends long and short. Down side of the German system is there is never anyone at work when you need them. To beat all, they also used to have a thing called a Kur which meant ever 2 years of so you got an extra 2 weeks paid leave at a spa to soak your bad back, sprung front, burned top or sprained bottom in hot water and get it massaged. I was too embarrassed to ever do the Kur thing. So if you are complaining about lack of efficiency caused by time off in Bali ask a German. He'll probably tell you it's down to bad management haha :tongue:

calma

spicyayam wroteI hope everyone had a relaxing day yesterday. I know we have many holidays in Bali for various ceremonies, which of course I don't have a problem with. But it does seem like a one day holiday becomes extended to days off before and after the ceremonies. For example at my son's school they marked off 8/9 for Nyepi. He went today, but none of the teachers showed up. Only the security guard was there. Galungan also seems to be at a week long holiday. It is kind of related to the school thread and makes me think even if your kids go to a regular school, you need to do some kind of homeschooling for the time off they have, not mention the difficulty of trying to run a business. Has it always been like this? or maybe I am just getting older.

I don't know if it has been always like that but at least it has been since my child who is 11 years old has been to a Balinese school, and if you look at the calendar of the class if they give any to your child, the week on 21th has 4 days of kegiatan tengah semester, that means they will be only playing at the school and on Friday 25th again Christian holidays............. I am totally agree with you, to me sometimes I have the feeling they have more holidays or lazy days than really a proper school days, plus the most of the time I am quite sure they do almost nothing on the classes..............the schools are pretty boring here at least the public schools, they don't do much or I could dare to say the teachers are in many cases quite boring or has not much initiative or know how to teach in a more dynamic way, I feel really sad about this when I compare the way I studied or my school and the way my child is studying or her school.........a really high price to live on paradise....... I though the same, Nyepi suppose to be one day holidays but became 3 days holidays, for many of the staffs as well, one day before, Nyepi day and the day after.

Nydave

I have come to the conclusion that education here especially the private ones is just a business,all about making money with no care at all about what the children learn or should I say don't learn,anyone who thinks otherwise is just kidding themselves, Here in Surabaya one private school we checked out claim to have foreign teachers,when we questioned them they told us yeah we have a teacher from the Philippines who teaches English and a teacher from China who teaches chinese,I do realise that many from the Philippines speak English but are they qualified to do so,the only reason for this is that is because they come cheap,and why on earth would you have a teacher from China here when the country is full of chinese,so immediately we know they are employing a local chinese, Many of the teachers here in Ri who teach in the English schools such as EF are people who like Markit says were window cleaners then took a 120 hour tefl course and are now supposed to be teachers,hell we even had some questions asked on here some months ago from young people asking about teaching here in Ri,one even stated that and his Gf were doing a tefl course,man the guy couldn't even spell properly,i know English schools are different from regular schools however I'm sure that in the regular school system there are many of these so called teachers also, [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] I have come to the conclusion that education here especially the private ones is just a business,all about making money with no care at all about what the children learn or should I say don't learn,anyone who thinks otherwise is just kidding themselves, Here in Surabaya one private school we checked out claim to have foreign teachers,when we questioned them they told us yeah we have a teacher from the Philippines who teaches English and a teacher from China who teaches chinese,I do realise that many from the Philippines speak English but are they qualified to do so,the only reason for this is that is because they come cheap,and why on earth would you have a teacher from China here when the country is full of chinese,so immediately we know they are employing a local chinese, Many of the teachers here in Ri who teach in the English schools such as EF are people who like Markit says were window cleaners then took a 120 hour tefl course and are now supposed to be teachers,hell we even had some questions asked on here some months ago from young people asking about teaching here in Ri,one even stated that and his Gf were doing a tefl course,man the guy couldn't even spell properly,i know English schools are different from regular schools however I'm sure that in the regular school system there are many of these so called teachers also,