[llimos]

If the government want to help (and the new government has shown a strange attraction to price interference), they could simply let schools choose their own holidays, as long as they have the right number of school days in the year.

It would be a bit harder for families with kids in different schools, but probably most schools would be _more or less_ the same, with just a bit more variation to spread it around a little bit.

[blitzar]

School holidays are already annoyingly staggered +/- a week for different schools.

[geodel]

What's so annoying about it?

[blitzar]

Half-term for one kid is not the same as the other etc

[joking]

they do that in france with the "white" week. It's staggered and different per region.

[gklitz]

You can change it up slightly, but there is just no way to go from a delta distribution around the same weeks to a uniform distribution around the year. People want to have summer vacation in summer, and they often want it to overlaps with the vacation of relatives and family.

You’ll never get a system where demand for vacation options is independent of period.

[geodel]

> People want to have summer vacation in summer

Well that's just kind of truism. It is forced by policies and not some innate behavior of people in all places or of all classes.

[jogjayr]

It isn't a truism. Summer is when the weather is good.

[happymellon]

That would help for a lot of things that are priced around schools.

Flights can be 1/3rd the price with less than a week before/after summer break.