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[quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]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.  [/b]

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

That might be ok for some families/students but it could wreak havoc on a lot of others.   As a parent of older teens, I know many of them use the long summer break to work (some families actually NEED that money, or the students need it for college), do internships, get ahead/replace a course by taking summer school (for example, my son wanted an extra elective and one option was to take PE during summer school so he'd have extra room in his schedule during the year.)[/quote]

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