oddly children have a long summer holiday not a winter one. Or should we alter the school schedule to suit you as well as you don’t like the cold?
Of course not. Though I know of plenty of people without kids who still go in the summer because it's kind of ingrained that that's when we go on holiday.
There could be an argument made for changing the school year to a big winter break rather than summer, as a lot of it is based on redundant practices like needing the kids to help with crops etc during the longer days. Or at least making it more even between summer and winter with a month off in both.
- Less potential for school days to be lost to snow etc.
- Safety as kids going to and from school in the light due to longer days (and would allow for the debate about longer school days to fit in with work and be more like the world they will face on leaving school).
- More able/willing to partake in P.E. and spend time on outdoor activities.
Of course, it would need to be taken into consideration that underprivileged children who were unlikely to get to go on holiday would then spend their holidays stuck indoors in the cold and wet while more affluent kids got to go away, but that's also part of a bigger, separate argument about social equality.
