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Article: Are the school holidays too long? The Big Question YOUR VIEWS ON A MORAL DILEMMA. TODAY, CATHERINE LILLINGTON ASKS...
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- July 25, 2006
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Telecommunications engineer John Duffy, aged 38, of Ward End:
"School holidays are too short. I don't think a child's whole life
should be school. But it's probably challenging if both parents
work."
Insurance worker Kevin Sherratt, 48, of Sutton Coldfield: "They're
probably about right. Children these days work hard and they need
those six weeks to recharge their batteries."
Carol Underwood says that in Ireland school holidays are much
longer. The 49-year-old Birmingham bank official says: "Secondary
school children get three months and primary school children two
months. Six weeks is about right."
Insurance under-writer ...