WHILE it’s a great idea for one Welsh primary school to take all its teacher training days together to give parents a cheap holiday week the plan has flaws.
The school is using the trick to avoid strict new rules preventing parents from taking children on term-time holidays.
Parents have long suffered from holiday companies hiking up prices during Summer school breaks and this offers a nice bonus.
However, tour operators are sharp and although it may work as a one-off, it’s unlikely they’ll do nothing.
There’s far too much at stake financially for them to simply watch and applaud.
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