Two-week half terms: The school holiday no one can agree on
I keep coming back to the fact that we're arguing about two weeks of school closure like it's a matter of planetary physics. The real story is that our whole system runs on the assumption that someone, usually a mum, will absorb the slack. The cheaper holiday crowd has a point, but their point only works if you've got the flexibility to take advantage of it.
What I'd want to know is who actually gets a say in this. The childcare industry, the tourism board, the teachers, the parents who can't work from home. Everybody's got a stake, and nobody's got a clean answer.
I think the honest take is that we've built a society where the school calendar is doing a lot of unseen work, propping up the economy, the family, the whole arrangement. And when someone proposes moving the furniture around, we suddenly see all the cracks. That's the part worth paying attention to.