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The kids these days seem to be off every other month.
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Seem, or are? Is this new?
Let's see some facts. Round here it's:
4/9/07 to 19/10/2007
29/10/07 to 21/12/2007
7/1/2008 to 15/2/2008
25/2/2008 to 4/4/2008 (with two days off over Easter)
21/4/2008 to 23/5/2008
2/6/2008 to 24/7/2008
Three terms, one week off in the middle of each. Each half term is about six or seven weeks each, which obviously means that you're going to have kids off every other month. In fact I think there's only November with no time off, although September, March and June are nearly all school time. I'm not sure what this proves, unless there's evidence of some diabolical socialist plot to allow teachers to slack while the kids go robbing pensioners or something, which would be rather at odds with the emphasis on exam targets (fattening them up for the next Labour Manifesto, basically).