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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the February break. I am happy it's gone and I hope they don't bring it back.  No other school systems in the area have it, public or private. We can't travel for both February and Spring breaks (and we prefer to travel for spring) and my kids are young so that means if there is a February break, they have to go to some kind of camp for at least a few days in a row.  That sucks for them, they don't like that in the middle of February. [/quote]

So you'd rather tack on ANOTHER week to the already too long and miserable and expensive summer?

I understand not being able to afford to travel for both breaks, but my summer is starting to cost up to 10K for both kids in camps for 11 weeks![/quote]

Why do you have kids in camp for 11 weeks when DCPS summer is only 9 weeks?

I do like that DCPS summers are shorter, because from a childcare standpoint it's more affordable and also just fewer weeks I have to come up with something.

I do like the idea of the summer lining up better with the rest of the region, because I agree that the last two weeks before DCPS starts are always the hardest for which to find camp or other childcare. A lot of camps in the area (even in DC itself) only go through the first week of August. I don't know why they moved back the first day of school to the last week of August -- maybe because it's super hot in those weeks and teachers and parents at schools with crappy AC complained (which I totally get, but that's an argument to fix the AC, not shift the calendar).

I am one of the families who resents two spring breaks because I find it much harder to figure out how to handle two full weeks of no school than the odd day off or long weekend here and there. I sense the only people who really love the two breaks are people who have the means to travel for both (so both more $$ and also enough flexibility to take off both weeks from work). That's not most families, so I personally think that's a failed experiment. We did way better this year with the long weekend in February and then the random days in March and April. Many schools and activities offer one-day camps for those days and it's also way easier for my husband or I to take a day or half day of leave for some random day in March than to arrange for a full week in the middle of February, right after figuring out winter break as well.[/quote]

I don’t get this at all. All the day off camps I use also offer weeklong camps during weeklong school breaks. Maybe signing up for a bunch of different one day camps is not really any harder than signing up for a single weeklong camp, but I don’t see any possible way it could be *easier*. [/quote]

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