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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the next school year, the week before winter break is a 2-day week. I think it’s very likely that there will be more absences on those two days than there have historically been for (for example) on Diwali. But it still makes sense to have the school days for all those who do show up, & to be able to count those days. [/quote]

that's not a good idea either. it should be two full weeks.[/quote]

I really have to disagree here. “Two full weeks” doesn’t sound like that much, but in practice it becomes more than that and will end up acting as a floor and not a ceiling.

This school year, the last day of school in 2022 was December 16. The kids didn’t get back to school until January 3. That’s 17 days. Christmas was on a Sunday. You literally could have had and extra four or five school days before going on break with minimal disruption.

I grew up in Massachusetts, going to a mediocre school in an otherwise high-performing state. The expectation was always that the last day of school before break would be Dec. 23, unless that produced something odd like a one-day week. I just checked and that’s still how they and lots of MA schools do it.

Ironically, the 24-25 school year is going to have Christmas on a Wednesday, which is the only situation in which I think a 2-week break is justified, because doing the traditional Dec. 24 to Jan. 1 break would produce a 1 day week on both sides of break. That might be why they’re trying to ram it through now, when it appears reasonable, and the more outlandish outcomes are farther off. [/quote]

Exactly.  And I think syphax wants this because they’re getting paid for these days now. It’s a mess to get elementary kids back on track after such a long winter break [/quote]

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