[Because]

I heard this on the radio recently, proposed by someone (yes, I was listening very well - and I can't find info on it on Google).

The idea would be that schools would operate year-round, and parents would nominate when they wanted to take their kids out of school for holidays.

WDYT? Would you support this idea?

[cinnabubble]

Not unless there were spectacularly good and very affordable year-round school holiday programs.

[PixieVee]

It doesn't really sounds practical at all to me.

[Flibbertigibbert...]

For our family it would work, would be a bit if a logistical challenge for schools though.

[amabanana]

And what about missed curriculum? Or are schools going to teach differently too?

[Peppery]

Wouldn't it be a nightmare for teachers??!

[niggles]

Sounds completely loony. What do the students do when the teacher takes their holidays? How does the teacher plan with no idea or influence over which students will be present when?

[mpjp]

Eltham College melbourne campus does exactly this (I think the school is called something else now).

My DS went to their ELC and we looked very closely at the school for that reason, and that reason alone!!! Pity we didnt warm to teh staff or Principal....maybe its because they hate their working rosters!

[Old Grey Mare]

I have a friend who works in the English education system where individual schools can program their own holidays. My friend and her husband teach in secondary schools and both have different holidays to each other and their primary school aged daughter. For cases like this the pick-your-own-holiday could work but it just seems too disruptive to me.

[Julie3Girls]

I'd imagine in most cases it would be very disruptive to learning. While most schools will say that they plan to the individual children, fact is, the majority of work is taught to the class as a whole, with then additional allowances/effort/teaching to meet the needs of the individuals.

If you had kids dropping out any time during the year, it would mean the teacher who have to be tracking and repeating a lot of work.

Also, have you seen kids at the end of term? A lot of kids get ratty, you can tell when the term is a long one, you can see that some of the kids simply need a break.
By letting parents simply pick and choose, you are taking away that even spacing of breaks that currently exist. And what about parents who can't be bothered to sort out holidays.

Vacation care would be impossible, because it runs based on numbers, often in the school grounds. Working parents only get 4 weeks a year, what should they do the rest of the time?

Basically, not practical in my opinion.