Talk:Inset day

"and are still occasionally"
"they were originally, and are still occasionally, referred to as Baker Days."

This, I guess, is an example of where WP is in need of continuous revision. I would be fascinated to know whether any schools do still refer to them as Baker Days, but I fear that Kenneth Baker was not as successful in attaching his name to a teacher training day as that other government minister Hore-Belisha was in attaching his name to his beacon. When we state that they "are still occasionally referred to as Baker Days," who are we talking about? If we mean members of the public, that's fine (I still refer to them as Baker Days, but often others don't have a clue what I'm talking about). I think that the reader would infer though that we mean that they are still occasionally referred to as Baker Days in an official context. Reader inference is an important consideration, and we need to make sure that the reader knows what we mean, and that we know what we mean. Can anybody find a recent example of a school calling it a Baker Day?

Earlier I did a quick google search. I saw no examples of schools calling them Baker Days within the last decade. The most recent reference by a member of the public which I could find during my hurried search was this from 2008-: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1271816 We're now in 2014. Can anybody find anything more recent to justify our assertion that they sometimes still are referred to as Baker Days?

There is a literary reference from 2009, in Sandy Balfour's What I Love About Cricket-: "

"His school had what they now call an Inset Day and what older hands amongst us know as a Baker Day, meaning a day when the teachers get in-service training and the kids roam the streets in feral bands terrorising pensioners and knocking over newsagents."

As If by Blake Morrison (1997) also uses both terms-: "It was a Baker Day, the boys said, an Inset Day, a day off."Alrewas (talk) 17:10, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

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Article Limited to English Commonwealth Perspective
Despite inset days existing in the USA and many other countries, this article appears to be limited to the context of UK and Canada. A blurb about one non-crown country should be added to balance out any perceived source bias

(I think you know which country I will recommend...'Murica has teacher development days (a/k/a teacher work days, professional development days, or staff development days)).

Too lazy to do the editing work myself - just noting the concern here for posterity. JAF Jafonte01 (talk) 12:42, 17 August 2023 (UTC)