The public sector is supposed to be a sector of comparable professions, although such a claim is rather "over the top". It consists of a 40-hour working day and 20 days holiday (to start), which is somehow not the case for the teaching guild. While the hour is not 1 hour, but 45 minutes and "preparation" for the next hour, the leave is collectively spread over the whole year, amounting to more than 60 days.
Most other public and private sector employees work 40 hours a week (or more), starting at 8am or 9am and finishing at 4pm or 5pm. Where does the problem arise? It is during the school holidays mentioned above, when parents have to look for childcare during the holidays, which is often quite an expense for the average family. Teachers' salaries remain more or less the same during the "holidays" as they are during their teaching commitment.
My proposal is that school care should be provided throughout the year, during the main holidays as well as the other holidays, and with the same amount of staff (not new recruits). This would alternate between each other, so that each school worker could take 20 days (or in proportion to the length of service) of leave, and the rest of the time be present at the school and have care or supplementary teaching of 8 hours.
Even outside the holidays, it would be highly desirable for school not to finish as early as 1 p.m. or 2 p.m., but to continue until 3 p.m. or 5 p.m. This would allow teachers to prepare the material for the upcoming lessons in their classrooms and to be available for pupils who otherwise need afternoon instruction. Often they already get it from these "same" teachers, but at an extra cost.
I do not want this measure to penalise teachers (because they have the longest holidays in the public sector), but to relieve a large part of Slovenian families. Both in terms of time and money. In relation to other professions in the public sector, I also do not find it controversial to introduce such a system, as teaching is currently quite 'privileged' in terms of time allocation. Many European countries do not even have such a favourable teaching system as ours. Of course, such a measure would meet with resistance from school staff, but I believe that, on the other hand, it would meet with applause from the users (families).