Staggering school holidays will hurt working parents

#Staggered: join my campaign to keep school holidays unified - David Cameron is wrong

I AM TRYING to "lean in" as much as I can. But if schools stagger their holidays and stretch the breaks throughout the year, as the Prime Minister and the National Association of Head Teachers are proposing, I am going to fall over.

This week David Cameron backed the growing movement to stagger school holidays and half terms so that airlines don’t take advantage and jack up their rates.

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Edie Lush is a journalist and communications coach. She is executive editor of Hub Culture and has been associate editor of Spectator Business, a political analyst for Hedge Fund Omega Partners and UBS, and a reporter for Bloomberg Television.