However due to negative media publicity as well as pressure from the town mayor ( Mark Meredith ) and parents, the Head Teacher has been forced to cancel the trip.
Cost
Admittedly the trip was said to cost £17,000 but why shouldn't the teachers go somewhere nice to do their training? It's not as if there are many other perks of the job!
Indeed if a bank or a car dealership decided to take its employees on a training weekend nobody would bat an eyelid!
Parents complaints
Parents have been complaining that if pupils are not allowed to take a holiday during term time, why should teachers be able to close the school for 2days? Of course they are forgetting that each school is allocated 5 non teaching training days a year, it is the school's own choice as to when they take them.
I think this is really more a case of the green eyed monster than anything else. It's parents who can't afford to go on holidays themselves that are kicking up a stink. Its not as if many of them making the complaints care about education anyway.
Perhaps these people would like to make a fuss over the fact that my mum (a Headteacher), is going on a training week in Arizona in 2weeks time. If they are making a fuss over Marbella, they certainly won't like that!
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