The school holidays are too many and too long and for working parents these holidays are a massive and expensive inturruption. The summer holidays out dated to the modern day life as its not necessary for the kids to be off for such long periods of time. seven weeks in some cases and then to add insult to injury the teachers are then allowed extra days after all the holidays for teacher training. No other profession is this acceptable, and they should have there training within the 14 weeks holiday they currently enjoy. As a lone single parent trying to run a business from home iv had enough and say they should ban Theacher INSET days.