Debate Magazine

Half Term Week

Posted on the 31 October 2013 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth
I can't think of anyone who benefits from all the state schools having half-term on the same week.
It's easy to see who would benefit from staggered half terms: parents, as places they want to go would be less liable to be booked up and there would be less congestion getting there, the holiday industry as they would get three weeks of trade at higher prices instead of just one, commerce as every working parent isn't trying to take the same week as holiday, residents of cities, as they would get three weeks of reduced congestion instead of one. It looks a bit of a no-brainer, yet the powers that be insist on keeping half term to one week. Am I missing something?

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