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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s probably the working parents who want year round school. They want the childcare. [/quote]

Year round school has the same number of days in school, the breaks are arranged differently. So the same number of days off. It has nothing to do with child care.

You would end up with 2 weeks off at the end of each quarter, probably 3 weeks at the Winter Break and maybe Spring Break. Summer would be 6 weeks instead of 9-10 weeks.

Essentially, you clearly do not understand the concept of year round school.[/quote]

NP here, this is a much easier schedule for working parents.  I have a lot of PTO and can take multiple 2-week breaks, but I can't take 6 weeks at a time.  I can ask grandma to watch the kids for 1 week at a time, not for multiple weeks.  I can spread out my camp payments instead of spending a fortune all at once in February to cover 10 weeks of summer childcare, and if my kid didn't get into a particular camp we could switch up our plans so she attended during a different break.  So even though it is still the same amount of time off, it is still better for childcare reasons.

I would love it.  It would prevent summer slide, make off-season travel easier, and give us longer breaks in the winter when it's miserable to be in school/aftercare all day.  [/quote]

+a million [/quote]

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