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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should not be peppering a calendar with religious holidays to the point that it extends the year an entire week.

Who was even sent these surveys?  [/quote]

Why not?  I'm fine with a long summer break that allows camps and travel and downtime, but I could easily do all that in one less week.  Summer brain drain is real... it's too much time off in one chunk.  If it was up to me I'd add a week to spring break, add a 2-week break in October, and get summer break down to something like 8 weeks which is still plenty long.

I think of course it depends on your job whether you find this desirable... how much vacation time you have to allow for 3-4 day weekends, if you can work remotely, if you can afford a daycare/camp program on the occasional day or week of school break, if you have flexibilty at both work and home to shift your schedule certain weeks (e.g. work four 10-hour days in a week when your kids have a day off, or nine 9-hour days across two weeks), and so on.

As someone with that flexibility, its easy for me to advocate for spreading the breaks out more through the year and shortening the summer... it's better for the kids academically not to have such a long summer break. But logistically and family-stress-wise, that's not always the case for everyone. But there's some pretty obvious benefits to shortening the summer, even if it will require some families to adapt.[/quote]

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