School Holidays
Sir, —Here we go once more! All school children scooped from the beaches, rivers, and domains; parents behind desks, counters, and sinks, the barometer at Set Fair and February’s anticyclones lining up for a het month. Haven’t we yet learnt that New Year (and early January) is not a holiday weather period? Storms, sodden tents, and winter woollies! Must we continue to have our school children home from December 8, benefitting nothing by Christmas rush and tensions? The schools should break up on December 22, giving the young two shopping days, and re-assemble about February 23, or even March 1 (in company with the universities) and take only one week and two week-ends in mouldy May. High school “jobbers,”
depending on Christmas pocket money, could work in February at relieving jobs, as do students; but for the weird mob preferring beaches and sun tan, must we be regimented by the Education Department? —Yours, etc., BOTTLING BERTHA. February 7, 1965.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 16
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