How I agree with Carole Cutts (Letters, September 27) about the practice by holiday companies of discriminating against families by increasing holiday prices during school holidays, often by hundreds of pounds.

Schools do not want parents to take their children on holiday during term-time but they should realise for many families, like ourselves (we have four adopted children), it is a question of going during term-time or not at all.

I only hope the proposed six-term school year may offer a solution, if only by staggering the breaks across the country so the holiday companies cannot be provided with national dates for school holidays.

Maybe, instead of sending postcards to parents, schools should instead lobby the holiday companies to stop this sheer greed, thereby helping teachers also caught in the same trap.

-Mrs C Felix, Lenham Avenue, Saltdean