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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought starting in August would help us get our earlier in June and it doesn't. Now we also have all these random days off and religious holidays built in, in addition to 14 snow days that we don't get back if we dont use them. Why do we have spring break at the end of april when we get out in June. How is it this impossible for adults to work out a calendar?[/quote]

Why do you want to be out earlier in June?  [/quote]

I too am curious. It seems to me like parents have an odd longing for summer and then like to come back and complain about summer slide and teachers like to complain about how it takes weeks to ramp up to the previous level.[/quote]

I think that there is a percentage of families that want 9-10 weeks of summer, or longer, and are miffed at the idea of a shorter break. The ones complaining that summer is too short tend to be the summer swim team families, the travel to Europe or Asia and spend 8 weeks families, and the wed to 8 weeks of sleep away summer camp families.

The 2 working parents families would be fine with a shorter summer because it is less expensive to travel at other times of the years and they find camps for their kids any ways.

There is a subset of the SAHP crowd that want a shorter summer because they can't afford camps and travel or swim clubs and 9-10 weeks home with their kids 24/7 is hard.

I suspect that there are more people in the shorten summer and have longer breaks during the school year camp but we don't have as much money to lobby the SB with and don't scream nearly as loudly as the swim team parents. [/quote]

Ha! Maybe you are right. :) I am a swim parent and on the side of not wanting to go past two weeks in June. [/quote]

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