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Post by tractor on Jan 23, 2014 8:43:40 GMT -5
I thought it was normal to have a winter break for the schools on the east coast during the week after Presudents day. Our schools aren't closed in Michigan, but my wife always gets that week off as she teaches all summer.
Anyway, we often go to visit the Mouse in Florida that week and it's really busy, filled with families from the east coast on winter break. If the folks out east want to stop giving people off that week, it would be fine with me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 8:55:28 GMT -5
Our kids get the week between Christmas and New Year's, a week in February and another week for Easter Break along with a monthly "Superintendent Day" and the various other national holidays.
My niece is starting kindergarten in September and my sister wanted to take all of August off because she has the PTO accrued. I told her to save some of it since the kids have at LEAST one day off a month.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 23, 2014 9:17:20 GMT -5
I attended elementary and high school during the '50s and '60s in Massachusetts. Our one week of winter vacation was always in February
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jan 23, 2014 9:33:45 GMT -5
This year around here a lot of schools are getting neither MLK or Presidents day off because of the amount of snow days between the first of December and the second week of January. The school systems are scrambling to make up days. Fortunately, we haven't had any other wet weather ... unfortunately with the high winds dry air, fires have become a big issue. 2 weeks ago it was a soggy mess. Now it is a fire danger! Welcome to the Ozarks.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 23, 2014 9:34:02 GMT -5
They don't get President's Day? I thought that was a national holiday. If I remember correctly Washington and Lincoln's bdays were both in February and were combined to make President's Day. FYI, MLK day is in January. Two totally separate events. President's Day used to be a day off for school. However, when they made MLK Jr day a mandatory school holiday, many schools tried to drop President's Day as a holiday (since it was not mandatory that schools be off). They did that ONE YEAR in my little town (I think we were the only district in the state that decided to have school), the first year MLK became mandatory. Ticked off a bunch of parents, and many refused to send their kid to school on President's Day. So many, that the school district hasn't tried to do that again, and now they get both days off every year. President's Day is an "in service" day though, not a "holiday" like MLK Jr day. In my school district they are both full holidays.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 23, 2014 9:37:03 GMT -5
Our kids get the week between Christmas and New Year's, a week in February and another week for Easter Break along with a monthly "Superintendent Day" and the various other national holidays. My niece is starting kindergarten in September and my sister wanted to take all of August off because she has the PTO accrued. I told her to save some of it since the kids have at LEAST one day off a month. Oh pleeeeeeze...they seem to get one day off a WEEK.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 23, 2014 9:52:05 GMT -5
No school that I have ever been associated with have had a week off in February. Although, when I saw proposals for "Year Round" school, there were more weeks built into the middle of the school year, and only one month off in the summer. Maybe that is the concept. That proposal failed here. Too many rich people who leave for the summer fought against it. I would love to have more time off in the winter, when going outside is awesome and a lot less painful.
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Post by giramomma on Jan 23, 2014 9:58:02 GMT -5
No school that I have ever been associated with have had a week off in February. Although, when I saw proposals for "Year Round" school, there were more weeks built into the middle of the school year, and only one month off in the summer. Maybe that is the concept. That proposal failed here. Too many rich people who leave for the summer fought against it. I would love to have more time off in the winter, when going outside is awesome and a lot less painful.Well, we are looking at highs of -3 to -7 again next week. It's -4 out right now. Trust me, it was not awesome.
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Post by gooddecisions on Jan 23, 2014 10:07:31 GMT -5
It sounds like the school systems that have a week off in February only get a week off in December, as opposed to 2 weeks?
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Post by bean29 on Jan 23, 2014 10:10:03 GMT -5
We don't get a week off in February, either. Then again, we get so many snow days that they couldn't possibly give a week off in February, Christmas Break and Easter break...
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jan 23, 2014 12:09:10 GMT -5
Ours get two weeks for Christmas/New Years, a week for Thanksgiving, the week in February, and 8 days for spring break in April. However, we never have snow days and summer break seems a little shorter than I remember it being as a kid.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 12:27:40 GMT -5
We don't get a week off in Feb. It is 2 days for Thanksgiving, a week for Christmas, a week for Spring break, and 5 built in snow days (4 already used). Then there are a bunch of other days MLK, Presidents, Rosh Hashanah, Teacher planning.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 23, 2014 13:18:22 GMT -5
I think the better comparison is how many days are in your academic year. Our kids get 180 days. We start after Labor Day and end mid-June, 3 days off for Thanksgiving, 10 days off for Xmas, 5 days off for spring break, and then a bunch of holidays.
I could see how a school takes a week break in Feb but then starts in August or something. IMO the point isn't the breaks, but how many total days of instruction the kids get.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jan 23, 2014 15:09:06 GMT -5
I remember having the winter break in Feb as a kid. I never understood it though. I lived in NW Conn and NNJ. It wasn't like we were going to go to the beach that week. My kids got two days for Thanksgiving, 7 for Christmas to NY. They got MLK and I think they will get presidents day plus a week in April for spring break. Plus the ever popular for teachers, 5 day weekend in Nov during the teachers convention, that not one teacher I have ever met in my life has ever attended. There have already been 3 weather events at least this year, maybe more. We get at least a couple of flooding days. Kind of hard to drive the bus through 3 feet of water. We have had two half days and one full day off for this storm. It wasn't actually that bad here the problem was the cold causing mechanical issues. Plus the high tide was higher than usual and then flooded when it hit the streets. We also have a 180 school days a year.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 23, 2014 18:21:57 GMT -5
Ours get two weeks for Christmas/New Years, a week for Thanksgiving, the week in February, and 8 days for spring break in April. However, we never have snow days and summer break seems a little shorter than I remember it being as a kid. How many weeks do you get for summer?
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jan 23, 2014 18:24:47 GMT -5
Most of June and August, all of July.
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Post by jeep108 on Jan 23, 2014 18:28:35 GMT -5
No week off in Feb here. They do get a week off in Oct. they call it fall break.
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Post by teen persuasion on Jan 23, 2014 20:05:42 GMT -5
Our school year is 180 days, 188 for teachers. We start after Labor day and run to end of June. Summer is usually 10 weeks, but this year it's 9 weeks - Labor day was early and Regents run really late in June. They took the extra week and tacked an extra day on all sorts of 1 day holidays for 4 day weekends.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jan 27, 2014 17:27:14 GMT -5
Massachusetts schools get Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday off, the stretch from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day off, a week off in February ("February Vacation") and a week in April that includes Patriots' Day (Boston Marathon date) and is called "April Vacation". Most of our districts start the Wednesday after Labor Day. And we wonder why school runs through to the end of June.
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 28, 2014 7:56:36 GMT -5
I'm thinking the schools here will run longer because they've been off so many days because of the weather.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 28, 2014 9:51:28 GMT -5
Schools around here get both MLK day and Presidents' day.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 28, 2014 10:17:41 GMT -5
Massachusetts schools get Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday off, the stretch from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day off, a week off in February ("February Vacation") and a week in April that includes Patriots' Day (Boston Marathon date) and is called "April Vacation". Most of our districts start the Wednesday after Labor Day. And we wonder why school runs through to the end of June. I wonder if this is their way of gradually going to a year-round schedule without explicitly stating so and raising a ruckus. The long summer break is so detrimental to student learning (they spend most of Sep/Oct reviewing topics to catch kids back up) that maybe they're just going to slowly shrink summer.
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Post by DVM gone riding on Jan 30, 2014 21:05:27 GMT -5
HERE they get a week off bec schools where pushing for year round school or near that and parents didn't want that. So they started given a week off at Feb along with "spring break" to make the year longer
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Post by grits on Jan 30, 2014 21:14:25 GMT -5
We used to get Washington's bd, and Lincoln's bd off as national holidays. When they created Martin Luther King day, they decided to consolidate the bd celebrations as President's day. Under the Julian calendar, George Washington was born on February 11th. When the UK converted to the Gregorian Calendar, it moved to February 22. Lincoln's birthday is on February 12th. It could be why the schools take off a week.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 30, 2014 21:27:34 GMT -5
If and when there's week-long breaks here during semesters (Feb or Mar for example) it's usually due to Teacher Conventions/conferences.
I think Dark's just pissed that his kids are going to be home & underfoot instead of behind their desks at school.
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Post by grits on Jan 30, 2014 21:29:40 GMT -5
I think it is because the teachers are about to choke the kids, and need a break.
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