AS A parent, I have recently received the dates of the school holidays for 2015/16.

It never fails to amaze me that the education authorities set aside five “training days” for teaching staff in addition to the school holidays.

Why are parents expected to have their children away from school to accommodate this ridiculous situation?

Considering the enormously long holidays the teaching fraternity enjoy, can’t these individuals be made to take their training days during the childrens’ official holidays?

A D Rogers, Stockton Lane, York.