School start days throughout the country
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Anonymous
| I’m in Michigan and school starts the day after Labor Day and goes through the 2nd or 3rd week of June. It’s a state law here, although districts can apply for waivers. With our weather it works out great. But typically there are no camps the last 3 weeks of break because college kids are all gone. That’s always a challenge! |
Anonymous
Some schools are year-round or almost. The specialty school we were at for the last 1.5 years has a 3 week summer break., |
Anonymous
MI has the same tourism law. |
Anonymous
| Should be universal. Start the day after Labor Day and end first week of June. |
Anonymous
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An Ohio district:
Wednesday Sept. 6 - Thursday June 6 |
Anonymous
How it should be everywhere. |
Anonymous
PP here. And it’s no big deal. Nobody complains. No surveys are sent. |
Anonymous
We had a cottage in Michigan and my Dad would never let us leave till after Labor Day. I don't blame him even though I missed the first 1-2 weeks of school every year growing up! |
Anonymous
OMG I want this schedule!! This means you can actually see Europe without crowds and Jan holidays to islands not high season. I love the year round approach with weeks off throughout year. 13 wk pvt school summers are so long. I think not learning for 3 months at all is a dumber way to go and having breaks through the year is lovely from a perspective of traveling. I think it's hard though if your sports activities aren't on same schedule though. |
Anonymous
It would suck as if you kids you have to travel per your school schedule so everything is always $$$ then. |
Anonymous
\ Wrong. In the southern states, June is still pleasant, but August is unbearable. It makes sense to be in school from early August through late May, and then have June and July off. Different locations obviously have different needs. The side benefit is that if only half of the country is out of school and traveling in early June and only half of the country is still traveling in mid August, both of those times will be cheaper and less crowded than they would be if everyone were on the same schedule. |
Anonymous
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Here's a chart from Pew:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/14/back-to-school-dates-u-s/ |
Anonymous
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My cousin's private school year-round schedule is something like 9 weeks on, 3 weeks off, 9 weeks on, 3 weeks off...
No one burns out, teachers don't spend time re-teaching, no one needs 10-12 weeks vacation all at once. 3-6 weeks is plenty. My cousin said she will never go back to the traditional school year teaching. They love being able to travel in the off-season. |
Anonymous
In the two midwestern states I've lived in, schools were out around June 3 and went back on September 1st or Tuesday after Labor Day. |
Anonymous
I would love that so much as a teacher |