And there have been disputes over whether religious festivals should be taken as school holidays.
The travel industry comes in for stick for putting up prices during school holidays.
Provisional figures have been released for the main month of the Scottish school holidays.
Students will work from 09:00 to 17:00, and take annual leave instead of school holidays.
The work is beginning during the school holidays and will continue into the autumn term until Christmas.
Also, many families are locked into school holidays: Christmas, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Spring Break.
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However new AMs praised the assembly's family-friendly working hours and the fact recess coincides with school holidays.
From age 6 Motsepe spent school holidays working in his father's store, where he learned about business.
Along with Stirling and Falkirk Councils, Clackmannanshire uses an agreed formula in setting the pattern of school holidays.
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She said the school holidays and weekends were the worst and her daughter constantly had her curtains closed.
The local authority is launching a consultation on the pattern of school holidays.
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The Park in Progress Tours will run on weekends and during the school holidays from 29 March to 23 June.
Aberdeen Airport has reported its busiest October for five years, following a surge in international traffic during the school holidays.
Former assembly member Patricia Lewsley also urged parents to be aware of where their children were playing during the school holidays.
And I also figured that this being school holidays, I might end up with some other random kid next to me!
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My son's school broke up for the school holidays 3 weeks ago, but none of the pupils had received their results.
In the most successful East Asian education systems, "school days are longer, school holidays are shorter", Mr Gove told an education conference.
To combine cooking instruction and holiday travel look no further than Jenni Muir's beautifully illustrated "Cooking School Holidays" (New York, Abbeville Press, 2004).
Ms Jude said lessons on Saturday mornings, and possibly also in school holidays, could include talks by university lecturers, aimed at raising pupils' aspirations.
There were a large number of children on the ski slopes because it is still the half-term school holidays in many parts of Scotland.
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Sales in London, New York or Miami, all cities with vibrant black markets for shoes, push scores higher, as do purchases made during school holidays.
Sound instincts help to explain how Mr Smurfit has been able to take such risks all those school holidays spent beside the corrugators were not wasted.
In the autumn term of 2008, 0.73% of half-days were lost to authorised and unauthorised school holidays and 0.45% were lost in the spring term of 2009.
Many of the dead were children from surrounding villages who had gathered for school holidays at Sissano lagoon, which took the full brunt of the ten-metre (33-foot) wave.
They will employ a nanny part-time, say before and after school, and during school holidays, or share a nanny with neighbours rather than have her all to themselves.
Teachers update and add new material to the website during school holidays and get just seven weeks off each year, roughly the same as the average Swedish office worker.
He had argued that the market was being distorted because school holidays are set through public policy, and parents cannot pick and choose holiday dates as freely as other groups.
Station manager Nigel Williams from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said several factors had combined to make the situation worse, including dry and windy weather as well as school holidays.
The growth of gaming means that the phone lines offering help or hints are rarely entirely quiet though the most popular playing times are around 6pm at night and during school holidays.
"We know that before or during school holidays is one of the most common times for a child to be abducted, " said Daisy Organ, the head of the FCO's child abduction section.
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