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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My school lost some accreditation this year due to absences. I'd say that 95% of the absences were sicknesses.

I do think that there's a lot of people taking long vacations though in the higher SES schools. Seems like if there's such a demand for that, that maybe it could be baked into the calendar. 2-3 weeks off in February or so. I personally can't vacation travel over Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays because we're seeing family members. And travel in the summer is ridiculously hot in a lot of areas of the world. I'd love to have a long break at a time when most other schools are in session. It would make traveling easier. I do have a lot of Indian friends who pull their kids out for 2 weeks and Loudoun county has a very large Indian population.  [/quote]

As a teacher I absolutely do not support other kids going 3 weeks longer in summer so wealthy families can jet off for 3 weeks in the middle of the year. All they’d do is plan a separate trip from that one anyway. [/quote]

OK well I support year round schools with larger breaks between quarters. We could still have summer but it would be like 6 weeks. Or maybe a month. [/quote]

My kids attended a school overseas like this and it was great. Wish we did it here. Summer was 6-7 weeks, but there was a week long fall break, 2 weeks at Christmas, a week long winter break, 3 weeks off in the spring, and a few other random days off.

One thing I dislike here is all the random days off. I wish they would group them better. [/quote]

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