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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two weeks off for winter break sounds BRUTAL. Whhhhhyyyyy?[/quote]

So people can go on an actual vacation and still see family for Christmas. [/quote]

Some of us can’t take a vacation and piecing together childcare is $$$$. [/quote]
Finding childcare for a contiguous two weeks is easier than for random days scattered throughout the school year.  Days off need to be clumped to create actual long weekends, longer holiday breaks or a longer summer.  [/quote]

Why? What do you use for childcare? All of the Kindercare type of places cover thr days off. All of the Tae Kwon Do after school program type of places cover the extra days off. Are you hiring babysitters for the days off, and they are only willing to book with you for a long week rather than a random day?[/quote]

Not PP, but I’m guessing PP means something like camps. There are always more options for camps during the longer breaks. One random Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday? Maybe not, especially if you typically use extended day for childcare during the school year. [/quote]

Extended day care covers the random school days off. I'm not really seeing thr childcare issue here.[/quote]

This is wrong.  It doesn't in Arlington.   Which you would know if your children were in Arlington.

It does in Fairfax.[/quote]

I had no idea that Arlington leaves you in the lurch. We get coverage here in Prince William.[/quote]

Fairfax and PWC both offer extended day on school days off? APS parents, how do we get that here in Arlington? It is maddening and expensive to arrange for more childcare with all these days off on top of paying for extended day.[/quote]

sorry buried my comment...

I don't know about PW but in Fairfax it is not run by the Schools and they limit who is in it.  Extended Day is run by APS and they are school employees and while occasionally kids are shut out of it, historically and currently they a lot more kids in.[/quote]

"Occasionally kids are shut out of it" doesn't begin to describe what has happened this year... waiting lists everywhere.[/quote]

We’re getting all the downsides of turning into Fairfax 2.0 without any of the upsides.[/quote]

You get to virtue signal about religious holidays just like Fairfax which is the most important factor in setting up the school calendar.[/quote]

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