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[quote=Anonymous]The whole question of how long for winter break, or any holiday break hinges on what is the desired outcome.  For most people who are truly celebrating anything, they want time with family before, during, and after to prepare, celebrate, and recoup.  So IMHO, I am looking to have eaglets in the nest for 2-3 days prior and like it when there is no school the day or two after.
Our cultural shift over the past 30 years from celebrating a religious Christmas starting close to Dec 25 to a secular celebration beginning right after Thanksgiving and pretty much ending on Christmas Day really puts the wrench in it.  Instead of synchronicity with multiple celebrations for 3 weeks from appoximately the Winter Solstice to early-mid January, it is strewn out from Black Friday, or worse now the early Black Friday, cyber Monday shopping nonsense.  Need to put Christmas back in the old school box of the octave before 25 Dec and the 12 days to Ephiphany.  
I know I am an old stick in the mud traditionalist, but I firmly believe in the power of the nuclear family and whatever our faith/non faith traditions may be, we should learn to celebrate them in the homes we sleep in.  Maybe have a relation or few come to celebrate or shock, celebrate with neighbors.   Sorry, but I don't see a need to make winter break into a huge block to take destination vacations.  Most people cannot afford this.  Just need a couple of days before a major holiday to create the appropriate celebratory kitchen messes and other preps.  And a couple of days to celebrate/recover.  If we cluster the winter holidays together, what plan supports that?  And oh please shorten the school year.  Kids need sunshine. Older ones need summer employment.

The school calendar needs to support this[/quote]

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