Saw an interesting idea on rec.skiing.resorts.europe: getting a group of families together to share tutors for their children while doing a 13 week season in the Alps coinciding with the Easter school term. Although, as one poster has already noted, it is surely the ideal opportunity to put your children in French schools and have them learn French, which might also be a good way to sell the idea to a sceptical partner (coincidently employees in the UK who are parents are entitled to 13 weeks parental leave per child).