Uk Schools encouraged to change holidays!

photo courtesy of BBC news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23756809

This isn't a helpful move to enable parents to avoid peak prices for holidays abroad.

This isn't to help pupils and teachers get more regular breaks.

It isn't to prevent kids from getting bored or parents running out of ideas.

It's not to give schools more flexibility to plan the curriculum.

SO WHY THEN?

It's a cynical plot permitting successive governments to pressurise schools into cutting down on holidays.

AND WHY'S THAT THEN?

Simples! 

School is a relatively cheap form of child-care; look at what they've done to the school day (in the state sector in the UK)-they've extended it so parents (mostly mothers) can work longer.

They are working under the misguided assumption that this will increase economic productivity. It won't! All it will mean is children spending even less time being loved, cared for, socialised, raised by their own parents.

It will lead to more disaffection, exclusion and social isolation and ultimately more crime.