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I think that we're getting away from the important point, which is that school holidays should be synchronised with the football schedules so that we can bring them with us to every match.

So if it's totally mad for two schools under the same LEA to have different term times why is it so sane for two schools in neighbouring LEAs to have different term times?

And a detriment to business if you have an 8- or 10-week period where only 3/4 of the staff are in at any one time rather than the current 6-week period where 2/3 of the staff are in. A lot of countries on the continent are like this, where it's very difficult to reach any major decision from...

Yet another stupid stupid idea out of our government. If they want to cut the school holidays a week or so then fine; not great, but I can understand that. But allowing schools to set their own term dates? Just horrible. No doubt part of Gove's plan to get rid of LEAs altogether and give...