Should parents take the family holiday during school term time?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co...-for-bargain-holidays

What is the solution to this annual problem?

Couldn't the tour operators be forced to level out their prices throughout the year, instead of them hiking up their prices during school holidays?

Perhaps one or two could try, and then maybe the others would follow.

[rov1200]

My parents were so poor we had to take weeks away from school. We did not go on holiday during this time but went to the annual fruit and hop picking in Kent. (Nowadays they use immigrant labour) We lived in rat infested barns, cooked over wood fires using faggots and all for a few pennies for picking baskets of strawberries.

[LoftyLottie]

And I bet you kids enjoyed that more than any 'holiday' as such!