The summer school holidays should run from mid January until the start of march.?

Reasons To Disagree

Yet another suggested change for changes sake. If this was adopted kids would be totally unteachable over the Xmas period and as it is they are getting a lousy education. DO NOT MAKE IT WORSE THAN IT ALREADY IS!

I think we should take stock and value our 'Kiwi Christmas'. Any learning time that we would go back to school for and then break again so soon would be lost. This silly idea is reinforced by the idea that actually the temperatures have not got hotter than it used to be.

From a high-school point of view, what would happen with end of year exams? Keep'em in November/December? But then what happens to the rest of December/January? The summer holidays would become three, four months long, and we'd lose education time (sparse as it is nowadays) from the following year. If we move them to directly before the new holidays, then Christmas would get in the way. Hmm... maybe we should move that too...

summer school holidays should NOT exceed 2 weeks as it is the holidays that promote poor behavier too long the holiday child looses interest in schooling

Reasons To Agree

Definitely! Chistmas is too early for summer holidays and February is too hot for children to be in school. We could move the 2nd of the new years stat holidays to the end of February to allow families to spend more sunny days together. Workers could spread their summer holidays over different weeks, rather than the existing mad rush we have over Christmas holidays. This would utilise holiday towns resources more efficiently. It's crazy to see how quiet a normally popular beach can be during a February school week.

Absolutely the weather is far too hot to be in a classroom or office during February. The seasons have moved. Lets make the Christmas break like the Easter break have a few weeks back and then gear up for summer. This also means you probably wont have to take Granma camping as well...

I HATE working in humid, hot classrooms at two o'clock during February. Maybe more mid Jan to mid Feb. Christmas/New Year week will still be taken off as it is for people who get buggar all time off.