Christmas is ruined - school holidays

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid]

Just been checking the school holiday calendar for next year. Christmas is awful.

Break up on 23rd Dec, not back in school till 9th Jan. I'm screwed, first week of Jan is always busy at work.

What idiot thought this was a good idea?

by the way sorry for starting a Christmas thread in January

Idiots- I hope you don't ever suffer a really awful event at Christmas.
It really changes your perspective and you actually want to knock peoples head together

Twitter on OP and bury your head to the realities .

Jesus Im bereaved and MN has deleted my posts.
Great.
Well Im out then.

I know I won't be popular, but I prefer the later finish. I then HAVE to be ready for Christmas but then have a few days grace in the New Year where I am not entertaining or shopping or socialising with family.

Sorry.

Ours are the exact same OP. Sucks when you need childcare but I am secretly happy as I get the school holidays so no hyper kids to deal with until pick up on the 23rd.

Idiots- I hope you don't ever suffer a really awful event at Christmas.

I did. In fact I nearly died.

It really changes your perspective and you actually want to knock peoples head together

Doesn't change your perspective more than at any other time.

You are coming accross as obnoxious and nasty.

I am a teacher and we break up 23rd. It's a nightmare in two counts -

1. loads of the things we usually do before Christmas we will not be able to do
2. kids are excited and knackered on the 16th - can you imagine what they will be like by 23rd

On the plus side holidays might be cheap the week after ...

Idiots- I hope you don't ever suffer a really awful event at Christmas.

I did. I had a sleeping baby.

You really aren't helping yourself with your posts.

We finish on the 21st, back on the 5th - Scotland. I'm a teacher and would rather have time off beforehand, but the short week in the first week back is a nice way to ease into it.

Plenty of people have awful events at any time of year, including Christmas. I was in a car accident one Christmas.

It doesn't eliminate someone's ability to be sympathetic towards someone else. We're all fighting our own battles - someone being upset over Christmas holiday dates has absolutely zero impact on you and your difficulties.

I'm sorry to hear you've been bereaved, but if you're finding this thread difficult reading, why are you still on it?

Oh, that's awful OP, I hate it when it's that way round. We're break up on the 16th back on the 3rd which is WAY better IMO.

We're climbing up the walls by the 2nd Jan, far better to have lots of time to do Christmassy stuff together and get over the end of term tiredness before Christmas.

Our holidays are is normal i have noticed, i did notice that this year though they break up on 22nd July and go back on the 1st September, which is very quick for us.

We break up on 16th, back on the 4th. I can see why the OP is upset. I work in the NHS. That first week in January is crazy busy time. Handy to have the dc back at school.

No reason why she can't say Christmas is 'ruined'. It's a figure of speech and life is not a competition for who can have the most licence to complain. I reckon most of us have probably had pretty bad things happen at Christmas at some point in our lives.

Ours is exactly the same op. Not sure how it will all work out in terms of work and childcare. I am a bit disappointed we won't have the build up of Christmas together.

pink the "Christmas is ruined" was just a bit of hyperbole.
The dates are a pain for me but this is a pretty lighthearted thread. I'm really sorry for your loss

for LazyDays

Must be a really long term for little new Reception kids. (DS starting next year - luckily we're off from 16th.)

break up 22nd, back the 3rd. I now need to go to ask for a week off to go and visit family longhaul - it's a bit of a PITA, but otherwise grandparents won't see their new grandchild until she's 9 months old which seems bit mean!

We have the opposite problem in our LA for Easter. We break up a full week before everyone else, meaning that next half term is only four weeks.

I genuinely wonder if somebody at the county council wanted a cheap holiday in the first week. Perhaps something similar is afoot in your LA.

We have a lot of time off at easter xx

Ooh lovely a Christmas thread already . 16th to the 9th here

In Scotland - we broke up very early last year.*

Not everywhere. Fife finished on the 18th.

im bereaved as well pink BUT just as we have probs/hard times so does everyone else

everyone is different but what makes one go ahhhhhhhhhhhhh something diff makes someone else go ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

this is a light hearted thread, op knows its not the end of the world but yes annoying holidays are going back late in jan for working parents

Holidays 22nd Dec - 2nd Jan here (London - just checked neighbouring boroughs and they have same dates)

Traffic will be hell, everyone trying to leave town on Friday 23rd for Christmas and returning after New Year on Monday 2nd. I predict a lot of "sick" children at the end of Autumn term and beginning of Spring; a very large minority of the children at my DC's school have at least one set of grandparents abroad.

We get no run-up to Christmas and no time to play with presents either. The DC are going to be exhausted and run-down - DC2 starts YR in Sept and that is a loooong term. 73 days, compared to 59 days for spring term and 60 for summer, with a Christmas holiday only 3 days longer than a half-term break.