The whole country having half term around the same time is a bit bonkers

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there has to be a better way?!!

Might avoid holiday price rises too??

booandpops got to call it spring break this year as Easter does not fall within the holiday, we have two weeks off 1st to 18th April and then Good Friday is on 22nd, so we have then and Monday 25th off which is Easter.

I'm in Northern Ireland,and nearly every school had mid-term last week. Except us,and two other schools that I know of.
It is a pain really,as there are no special activities on or anything.
Some mums and I have organised things privately as it is a very wet week here too.

I am a Christian but some years my kids get a Spring Break and then just a weekend for Easter. This year they go back the day after Easter Monday (for 3 days!).

Spring Break in the US tends to be February or March not April.

we are the same here - off 2 weeks at the start of April and then a long weekend at Easter itself. My kids are only going to be at school/nursery for 9 days in April due to all the holidays!

op, for "the whole country", I take it you just mean England, Scotland doesn't exist?

Dh and ds1 actually have all the same holidays this year Downside of course is that we are definitely limited to never fucking ever having a holiday abroad going away solely in school holidays when those shyster bastard holiday people put their prices up to ridiculous levels it's so much more expensive.

for those of us who have children at different schools.... it's having DIFFERENT half terms that is the nightmare.

Ours are off this week, but some of the schools in the area were off last week.

Fortunately our Head has dc's at the same secondary school as dd1 and always aligns our primary school holidays with them.

as someone on BBC breakfast pointed out a few days ago re holiday prices, most of the year they run at a loss so all that would happen is that the prices would go up across the board, It is a simple supply and demand situation which you cannot force them to change in a commercial industry. As others have said, if the holidays were staggered, it could only be by a week or two at the most (to ensure roughly equal terms, exam seasons etc) so the higher prices would just be in place for longer.

I work on the border and looking at the traffic figures it seems the whole world and their kids are travelling back from France this weekend.

We have extra staff and contingency plans in place but it's still going to be horrendously busy. If I had a pound for every parent who said to me "why is it so busy?" instead of thinking "All these people are travelling for the same reason as me at the same time as me, no wonder it's busy" then I'd be able to retire.

The majority of the holidays being at the same time is a nightmare for us, the ferry companies and the people who are all travelling together. I wish they were more staggered too.