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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I just looked at the calendar and there appear to be only 20 weeks of the year with 5 full days of school.  All other weeks have at least 1 day off / partial day.  20.  Out of 52.  For elementary I counted 30 days of no school DURING the school year.

Can no one see how this calendar is a huge burden to working parents?  Most working people only have a few weeks of leave per year.  The 6 weeks of no-school (interspersed between August - June) + 10 weeks for summer... That is a LOT of time to cover w/ alternate care arrangements.

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Is it really that different from prior years? Although my kids are older now, I remember when they were younger, it seemed like they were always off from school. But we were ones who decided to have the kids so I always understood it was part of parenting that kind of sucked, but we just had to figure it out. I didn't think MY childcare difficulties were the fault of a school system.[/quote]
I don't know -- I asked my mom to look at the calendar and even she thought the days off looked excessive. She didn't remember us having that much time off during the school year when we were kids.  I seem to remember school always starting after labor day and ending 1st week of June.  So a longer summer break.  This seems like it would be easier for working parents to plan for and handle than these days smattered all across the year.  With fewer families w/ SAHP, wouldn't it make sense to change the school year to make it easier for them?[/quote]

Still sounds like a personal childcare issue, not a systemic shortcoming. I grossly underestimated the amount of childcare I would need when I had kids, as well as the number of changes I'd have to make even once childcare plans were in place, sometimes on the fly. A business trip out of town for my husband or me (sometimes both at the same time), a sick babysitter, a sick kid(s), bad weather, etc. -- all part of the joys and burdens of parenting school age children. And because each family's situation is different, a calendar that works well for one family might be burdensome to another. So I don't think it's at all a school system's job to take that into account when creating the calendar. [/quote]

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