15 MARCH 1946, Page 14

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS : A PROTEST

SIR,—As grammar school pupils we protest againg the curtailing of our school holidays under the new Education Act. Now we have the same holidays as elementary schools. Every evening, however, we have home- work which takes us anything up to three or four hours. In addition, we have extra work to do for examinations (and those people who have Over taken School Certificate or Higher School Certificate have no idea what an amount of work these examinations entail). On the other hand, elementary schools have no homework and have no important examina- tions to work for. Are we not entitled, then, to have longer holidays