Petition to tackle holiday prices in school holidays

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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/226515/sponsors/new?token=PNpep4mVeQ9WPLw0WUsu

Please sign my petition if you agree with it. I’m asking for the government to change school holidays so they’re different throughout the country. There will be crossovers of course but by spreading out when schools have holidays will spread holiday demand and should lower holiday prices for families. Why should families, who pay more than couples anyway, have to pay 3 times more? We are held to ransom as we have no choice except feel like bad parents taking the kids out of school to get a reasonable deal. Families deserve nice holidays without getting into debt. Why do we all put up with it? The holiday companies can’t do anything about it as they respond to the marketplace like any other industry so school holidays changing is the only way to reduce the cost of holidays. I hope you will support this. It may seem unachieveable and a dream but all changes start somewhere. I believe some European countries spread school holidays out throughout the country. If holidays were the same for the schools within each county but staggered throughout counties as much as possible then this could change the landscape for family holidays for us and our kids and their kids. Life is expensive enough with kids why should parents be penalised for keeping the human race going. Surely travel is important to children’s upbringing to make them rounded confident people as well as having quality time as a family away from the stresses of home. Also wouldn’t it be better economically if people leaving the country and being off work was more spread out? I hope you can open the link to sign. It can be found on the government website for petitions if not. Look for heading’ to legally change school holidays in each county in U.K. so they are different. Please support this and let’s get fair prices for holidays

Fuck no!

We rely on simultaneous holidays with the rest of the country for my children's specialty sports' competitions that are national championships, etc We are one of many, many households that rely on schedules that are very similar.

This is not the solution

For a family of two children, born three school years apart, there are 17 years with school holidays. If you can travel between say early 20s and mid 70s, then for under a third of your life you have this restriction. Not if you are a teacher or otherwise in education.

So would you like 39 weeks to choose from (or 12 of 18 'summer' weeks- late May to end of September) for two thirds of your life, or less?

Just by way of update (thanks to a random autocomplete in my search bar), unfortunately OP still has a little bit of a hill to climb with this vital legislation, standing, as it is, at the same 14 signatures.

Perhaps my bumping the thread will get it up a bit....