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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone tell me why the school year needs to end this early?
Couldn't we have a shorter summer and longer school year with more longer breaks?

In my home country (I've already posted about this, so apologies to frequent readers), the school year is longer and has more evenly spaced breaks for students to recharge.

For this year -
Start of school: Sept 4th
All Saints holiday: Oct 21st to Nov 5th (2 weeks)
Christmas holiday: Dec 23rd to Jan 7th (2 weeks)
Winter holiday: Feb 17th to March 4th (2 weeks)
Spring holiday: April 14th to 29th (2 weeks)
End of school: July 7th
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In your home country you don't have Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Labor Day or Memorial Day either.  Your schedule barely has the kids in school.  They get two weeks off every 6 weeks AND two months off at Summer.  Then you would have to add our country's non secular holidays AND half day for professional teaching day.

Our state has 4 seasons and Summer is our biggest season for tourism and helps to pay for our school budgets.  Not to mention all the summer camps that can not open in the middle of the year because of weather and not have the ability to hire college or high school counselors for those small 2 week windows.  What about pool lifeguards.  Most of them are high schoolers.  How can they work when they are in the school parts of the summer.  How would your schedule and all the breaks work with high school sports?    Sorry, not a fan.  [/quote]

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