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You've been done there - my wife has got the full 6 weeks this year, and I'm pretty sure she does every year. I have a lot of sympathy with your viewpoint about people complaining. I also think complaints about pay are OTT; there aren't many jobs (outside of the public sector) that require a...

But that's entirely my point (and the one I think Nibble is making) - you've got to be realistic. I think the majority of people do act like that; we don't live in some golden age where kids can run around playing in the local park without adult supervision. We live in an age where kids have...

I have the complete opposite belief - it seems that quite a few NSCers were members of Famous Five in their youth. My primary school holidays were primarily occupied with badgering my mum into taking us on trips to places and watching TV. My secondary school holidays were filled with more TV...

The news reports I've read state that schools will still be bound to offer a minimum of 190 days of term time; however it might well be the case that they aren't able to increase term length either (I don't know).

This is absolutely what he's trying to do. He may be a thunderc*** of the highest order but you've got to give him his dues, he's an extremely pure ideological Tory, financial crisis be damned.

A fair point that I hadn't really considered. I wonder to what degree the issue of taking holiday from work is a particularly British problem (at least within Europe); we work with a lot of European consultancies and a lot of them more or less shut down over the summer (in the sense that they...

There are two distinct ideas here which have been (unnecessarily, in my view) rolled into one. 1) Reducing/changing the amount of school holidays 2) Giving schools independence to set their own holidays I think the first idea is perfectly legitimate and makes sense; I think 6 weeks for a...