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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care much about Fridays off (it doesn't affect me much practically as our afterschool program is open on all of those days, so from a working parent perspective, it doesn't matter).

The long weekend over Memorial Day is stupid...why? End of school is in 2 weeks.  Can we add those days to winter break?
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I think I would mind the Fridays a little less if our aftercare was open. I get 20 days off a year. If I spend 14 of them on Fridays off, that leaves 6 to cover any sick days my kids have, plus the other school days off and not to mention the winter and spring breaks. That math doesn't add up. To cover all the days off school my husband and I would have to take all of our combined leave just on those days and pray neither of our kids or we needed to be home sick at all, ever or that one of us would need to go to the doctor or dentist ourselves and we would never have a day off all together. I used to take our kids back to the daycare they attended but the oldest aged out of that now. Getting a sitter is the only other option which gets very expensive, fast. We don't have family in the area that can cover random one off days. If the days were combined a bit more we might be able to get grandparents to plan their visits around 3 days off from school or something, which we will likely do for that weird Memorial Day cluster.[/quote]

your aftercare is not open at all on days off and spring/winter breaks? Sounds like maybe you should work with the PTA for better coverage. [/quote]

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