Voices: The school summer holidays are just six weeks of hell for working parents
“Summer holidays 2024” is the title of the online spreadsheet – yes, you read that correctly – that my ex-husband and I have been forced to create in order to figure out what the hell we are going to do with our children in a few months’ time.
That’s right, folks, the moment we’ve all been dreading is looming all too fast, like the rest of this helter-skelter year: it’s the school summer holidays... aka a month and a half of sheer hell for working parents. Even worse: there’s Easter and May half-term to get through, first. I’ve only just recovered from the Balloon Museum over the February break... (top tip: don’t bother).
But now there are – and I couldn’t be more in favour. Educational charity The Nuffield Foundation is set to publish, which will recommend changing the current “Victorian” state school calendar.
