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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the shorter weeks/religious observance days off as does my 1st grader. If people want to drop all the religious observance days, I'm cool with it as long as they're also willing to move winter break to the end of the second quarter instead of pairing it with Christmas. Cheaper and less crowded travel when you're off in mid/late January and it makes more sense to have the long break halfway through the school year instead of a 2 week break followed by the end of the quarter a few weeks later. Christmas is a federal holiday so I know that would be off but there's no reason to tie winter break to christmas if you're truly striving for a secular calendar. I know it will never happen but I can dream, can't I? [/quote]

Do you work? It's impossible that you do. I cannot think of any DC-based job beyond maybe accounting (?) that would view going on a 2 week break in mid to late Jan as anything other than hugely disruptive. Virtually the entire country winds to a snail's pace between xmas and New Years - so much so that many offices simply shut this week; for govn't it's ghost town as most people take VAC that week. It's an EXCELLENT time for schools to be shut as a result. Mid/late Jan would only make sense if we were an Asian country where everything ground down to a snail's pace for Lunar New Year. [/quote]

I do and we do not get the end of December off. Before our kids were in school, we took the last week of January to travel because everything is cheaper and significantly less crowded. People currently take vacation that week *because* their children are off of school so saying it's a great time to have break because it's when people take vacation is silly. If a large district like FCPS were to move their winter break to coincide with the end of the 2nd quarter, many people would take vacation at the end of the 2nd quarter instead of at the end of December. [/quote]

I doubt it. 
1. Mid Jan is not a typical time for Congressional recesses
2. For the parts of the Administration that work internationally other countries are back "in business" then too, many having taken late Dec off & at most - in S. hemisphere - the start of Jan too. 
3. Not everyone has kids - all you need to do is compare how dead quiet it is the week after xmas to a slightly less hectic pace during spring break to get a feel - although parents may take off during spring break, things don't grind to a halt. If you do work that involves many other organizations & companies it's incredibly helpful to be out when everyone else is too.   [/quote]

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