Submitted on Tuesday 29th August 2023
Rejected on Wednesday 6th September 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reduce the school summer holidays to 4 weeks
Reduce the school summer holidays to 4 weeks and extend the May and October half terms by 1 week each.
The current holiday schedules are out dated and do not fit with modern family life.
Summer holidays used to be for children needing to help with the harvest; but now they are long, expensive drawn out weeks which are challenging for working parents, grandparents and carers. Whilst children and teachers require a rest, six weeks is a significant amount of time that children are relying on more screen time, less learning and parents try to keep them entertained on tight budgets. Spreading the holidays would allow for more even time off for families to take affordable holidays.
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Reduce school summer holidays to four weeks
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