Changing the school year

[Pugdoglife]

I've just seen a petition on social media calling for the school year to be restructured.
I can't imagine the government would consider it, but it seems to have some merits.

In essence pupils would go back in the September in the school year they are currently in, they could then properly cover the work missed over the summer term.
They would then move into a new year (in some cases school) in January.
The school year could then be split from January to December with school holidays split more evenly to make the summer break shorter which might benefit working parents and children.

Year 11 and 13 students could maybe be given time to do work experience, learn life skills, do voluntary work, do more studying in school/college in preparation for exams if they dispute the grades they receive in the summer. (This would only affect them this one year)

I apologize if this has been discussed on here in detail before, I hadn't seen a thread yet.

I'm sure there are many reasons it won't work, but it seemed like a reasonable idea to me.

As an aside, why is the curriculum different in every school? Wouldn't it be better for it to be the same everywhere? So that children can move school more easily. Am I missing an obvious reason why it isn't done that way?

It's also to do with resources. My control freak HT wanted the English department to teach the same text to whole year groups at the same time. We pointed out that this would mean we needed to triple our stock of texts. Now that Lit GCSE is closed book, we don't need a text for every pupil to take into the exam with them.

Do you work in a school OP? Or for the government?

@GreenTulips

Do you work in a school OP? Or for the government?

I am a teacher, and parent of one nursery aged child and two primary school aged children. Incidentally their school will be keeping them with their current teachers for the beginning of the new school year they haven't confirmed how long it will be for however.