Mae is a private school. Teachers at Mae will not get the same wages and benefits as those in the government schools. However, at least they ought to know their list of duties and terms of employment. The letter writer claimed that the exams are held in the last week and so part of the vacation is used to correct test scripts. This is exactly how the private schools operated in the sixties. This gave more time for teaching. Sometimes I ask myself who the long holidays are for- teachers or students or both. For teachers, I think it is time to do refresher, prepare schemes of work etc, etc. The teacher union must make a decision on this. The thirty nine weeks of the school year is reduced to twenty nine with all the breaks.