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In your home country you don't have Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Labor Day or Memorial Day either.  Your schedule barely has the kids in school.  They get two weeks off every 6 weeks AND two months off at Summer.  Then you would have to add our country's non secular holidays AND half day for professional teaching day.

Our state has 4 seasons and Summer is our biggest season for tourism and helps to pay for our school budgets.  Not to mention all the summer camps that can not open in the middle of the year because of weather and not have the ability to hire college or high school counselors for those small 2 week windows.  What about pool lifeguards.  Most of them are high schoolers.  How can they work when they are in the school parts of the summer.  How would your schedule and all the breaks work with high school sports?    Sorry, not a fan.  [/quote]

I'm not that PP[b], but I'm guessing[/b] that the PP's country has its own holidays, plus teacher training days, plus tourism and summer. Which means that they solve those problems somehow. Which means that we could too, if we wanted to.[/quote]

You are guessing is correct.  You think 2 weeks off every 6 weeks AND 2 months of summer would help dual working families and low income families?  Should parents take off those two weeks or have to pay for more childcare and camps every 6 weeks and then a full two months of in the summer.  Not ideal.  [/quote]

If this is your attitude then why even have kids if you think you shouldn't have to be responsible for their care and schools should be instead? You have kids, you have to figure out what to do with them when school is closed. If it means having to pay for camps and such, then so be it. If schools started to have more frequent breaks then we would cut back on something else in order to be able to afford camps or childcare for those times since we both WOH.

My kid is in before care for 30 minutes before the bus arrives and in after care 30 minutes after the bus returns. I pay $600/a month for one hour a day of care. That is because as the parent, I am ultimately responsible for finding care for my child, not his school. If I had your attitude, I would be here complaining that schools should be open for longer hours. After all, it's only 30 minutes here and 30 minutes there, right? What an inconvenience to me as the parent to have to pay for him to go to before and after care instead.

This new attitude of parents expecting schools to be held responsible for child care instead of parents is getting out of control. 
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