Anyone else annoyed by how Easter falls this year?

[Pyjamapyjamapyjama]

Easter is a big deal in my culture (I'm not British) and we always travel to my parents to celebrate. I cannot drive for a medical reason and usually take my kids there by train (it's a good 3 hours away), going on the Thursday before and returning the Tuesday after. However this year the schools go back on the Tuesday directly after Easter Monday which is incredibly irritating as no trains are running over Easter weekend and I have 0 desire to drag two kids and a baby on replacement bus services. I can't host myself as my home isn't large enough.

So annoying!!

Just me?

Where I am, Easter falls in the middle of the holidays 🤷🏼‍♀️

I am not sure that Easter is arranged around your needs, but yanbu to be annoyed that it doesn't suit.

Where we are schools are always off the first 2 weeks in April so this year they have 2 weeks off then 2x 4 day weeks at school 😁

Isn't it the schools that you should be annoyed at, not "Easter". The celebration of Easter is fixed, and can't be moved. School terms can be moved easily.

yeah just you

Be annoyed at the trains or the school.

it’s hardly Easter’s fault.

Have you Checked if your children's school has an Inset day on the 22nd April.

Unfortunately, Easter falls early and late some years. On those occasions, holidays will have Easter at the start or the end of the break, rather than in the middle. Yes it is inconvenient, but can't be helped.

Easter can be anytime between 22/3-25/4 due to differences between the Gregorian and lunar calendars - so it is quite 'late' this year.

It is annoying, our school is back on the Tuesday too. Have you looked to see if there's any suitable coach services for the journey? It might be easier than rail replacement depending on your actual journey.

The vernal equinox is notoriously small-minded and anglocentric. And good luck speaking to customer services at PhasesOfTheMoon, last time I was on hold for 28 days.

Easter isn't 'fixed' though, not in any rational way. Sometimes it works ok with reasonable terms/half term breaks, sometimes it doesn't.

It'd be much better if, like Xmas being celebrated on (or near) the solstice, it was fixed to nearest Sunday to the spring equinox.

Our school has Easter weekend in the middle of the holidays. It's my birthday in one of the weeks, love when that happens.

No, not just you! Our schools are back on the Tuesday as well, after finishing on 4th April.

Ours go back on the 28th, so Easter falls in the middle of the break

Just take the Tuesday off it’s not that big a deal

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We have Easter weekend in the middle of the Easter hols this year.

You've won the 🥇 for best comment of the day (for me anyway!)

It's just you @Pyjamapyjamapyjama

Also, @CherryFlan PMSL 😂

No it's not

Well if you think that the date isn't "rational" then why celebrate it? It is, after all, a religious festival and calculated based on a religious rational. So for people of faith it is rational. And if you aren't a person of faith you could have your long weekend any old weekend you want. I still maintain that since nobody is going to change the date of Easter then it's up to the schools to change theirs - would going back on Wednesday ruin the entire school calendar?

Not just you OP!

It’s annoyingly late this year. We’re away for Easter weekend too and back to school the next day. That’s just the way it is though! Hopefully the moon cycle works out that for the next few years Easter will fall perfectly in relation to the school holidays (my school
holidays. Obviously. Because we are all the center of our own world even if we don’t like to admit it) ☺️☺️

Yes it is - the date is determined by a fixed formula depending on whether you follow the Julian or Gregorian calendar and that calculation will never change - so you can work out what date Easter will fall in any year easily and adjust school terms if necessary.