I used to get really excited for the holidays only for me to be totally bored within 3 weeks. Sure holidays take up a chunk of time, but it's obvious that more and more parents who feel the economic strain are going to book holidays during off-peak periods, children will get easily bored with consoles and probably a few loose friends.
Simply put I think it's a good idea.
"The problem with education in the UK is nothing to do with the length of the holidays, but with the teaching and the curriculum."
I agree. Completely.
Curriculum is especially bad.
I chose A-Level History thinking I'll be doing BRITISH history, instead I got - Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Vietnam & Korean wars, Wall Street Crash oh and the tudors. The most well known and frankly boring part of British history. BORING!
Teach them Magna Carta, Roses war, IRA+GFA, Thatcher & Blair.
That's important, and worth teaching, not the same old crap they learnt in the first year!
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