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Duvet days for schools

 If they can have them, why can't we?
 
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Some companies provide employees with a fixed number of duvet days, whereby, on certain days, they can simply ring up work and tell their boss they'll be having a duvet day today and won't be coming in.

Some days, certain students feel tired in the mornings, and do not expect to work at such a high standard as usual. Not only could this reflect badly on the students and their teachers, but also bring down the class average.
On days such as these, students simply ring up the school and tell the staff they'll be having a duvet day today and won't be coming in.

—Parvenu, Nov 21 2002

Duvet days http://www.exp.ie/advice/DuvetDays.html
From an employee's point of view [Parvenu, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Duvet days http://www.osbornec...duvetdayomnibus.htm
From an employer's point of view [Parvenu, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

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       //If they can have them, why can't we?//   

       Because you get 12 weeks off 'work' and they get two weeks if they are lucky, thats why.
—tyskland, Nov 21 2002
   

       If I did it, I'd be the laughing stock of the unemployment center.
—dalek, Nov 21 2002
   

       Where are these companies, i would like to join one.
—tyskland, Nov 21 2002
   

       and who gets 12 weeks off? have I been getting screwed all these years?
—rbl, Nov 21 2002
   

       I have this image of some big guy in a hard-hat calling in to the shop foreman and saying he'll be taking a 'duvet day', he'd never be able to show his face again.
—rbl, Nov 21 2002
   

       Students get twelve weeks off, sometimes even more. Unless of course you live in Communist China.
—tyskland, Nov 21 2002
   

       Can't work today,i have carpet burns where my duvet fell on me.
—skinflaps, Nov 21 2002
   

       (in stoner voice) Dude, me too...
—snarfyguy, Nov 21 2002
   

       Ver ders duvil, ders duvet.   

       Some college students have 40 hour work weeks throughout the school year as well.
—Isis, Nov 22 2002
   

       My sister and I very seldom fell ill while at school. My mum used to let us take an occasional day off when we felt like it (frequently such days coincided with sports carnivals). Hooray for understanding mothers.
—madradish, Nov 22 2002
   
      
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