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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by llimos on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:38AM (#41433851)
If the government want to help (and the new government has shown a strange attraction to price interference), they could simply let schools choose their own holidays, as long as they have the right number of school days in the year.

It would be a bit harder for families with kids in different schools, but probably most schools would be _more or less_ the same, with just a bit more variation to spread it around a little bit.

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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by blitzar on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:44AM (#41433907)
School holidays are already annoyingly staggered +/- a week for different schools.
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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by geodel on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:54AM (#41434966)
What's so annoying about it?
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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by blitzar on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:37PM (#41436613)
Half-term for one kid is not the same as the other etc
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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by happymellon on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:48AM (#41433943)
That would help for a lot of things that are priced around schools.

Flights can be 1/3rd the price with less than a week before/after summer break.

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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by joking on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:39AM (#41434387)
they do that in france with the "white" week. It's staggered and different per region.
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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by gklitz on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:41AM (#41434861)
You can change it up slightly, but there is just no way to go from a delta distribution around the same weeks to a uniform distribution around the year. People want to have summer vacation in summer, and they often want it to overlaps with the vacation of relatives and family.

You’ll never get a system where demand for vacation options is independent of period.

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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by geodel on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:54AM (#41434961)
> People want to have summer vacation in summer

Well that's just kind of truism. It is forced by policies and not some innate behavior of people in all places or of all classes.

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Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happie... by jogjayr on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @10:21AM (#41435256)
It isn't a truism. Summer is when the weather is good.
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