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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate it. One week before Labor Day is fine. Beyond that and you pretty much lose August as a vacation month. Same for June. Beyond 1.5 weeks takes away that month as a vacation month. Plus the water in the pools is colder then. With all the activities starting in August, it makes sense to have 8 weeks free of activities for families to actually have a break from school.[/quote]

YOU HAVE THREE FULL WEEKS in August to vacate and that isn't enough for you?  You can't make a vacation to fit in a three week period?  I think that's a planning or mental failure on your part, not a failure of the school calendar.[/quote]

NO you don't have 3 more weeks of vacay.

You clearly don't have kids in HS sports or band.[/quote]

Those are your choices for how your and your kids spend their time.  If you want to go on vacation, there IS time in August to do so.  We ALL have the same 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.  We all make our own priorities on how to use it.  If, as you or PP suggested, that school start one week before Labor Day, you would still have kids in sports practice for three weeks before that -- and I wouldn't.  Pick and choose.  But, your kids being in sports for three weeks prior to school starting does not mean that there isn't any time in August for most people to take any vacation.[/quote]

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