{"id":844,"date":"2001-06-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/01\/2001-06-01-no-more-easter-holiday-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2001-06-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-01T12:00:00","slug":"2001-06-01-no-more-easter-holiday-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/01\/2001-06-01-no-more-easter-holiday-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Easter Holiday In U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,6903,497302,00.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, May 27, 2001: Schools are to be told to scrap Easter holidays and replace them with a non-religious &#8220;spring break.&#8221; Despite objections from Christian pressure groups, supporters of the proposals say a specific Easter holiday is incompatible with a modern school system because it is on a different date each year. Moving to a fixed holiday would reduce teacher stress, pupil truancy and improve exam results. The proposals say schools should celebrate non-Christian festivals such as Diwali and the end of Ramadan. Head teachers will be allowed ten &#8220;flexible days&#8221; each year to hold holidays which reflect the ethnic make-up of the school. &#8220;Many schools will now have as many as 12 religions represented in the classroom,&#8221; said Chris Price, the head of the Independent Commission on the School Year. &#8220;We want schools to be able to reflect that.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE UNITED KINGDOM, May 27, 2001: Schools are to be told to scrap Easter holidays and replace them,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}