Anonymous
07/06/2025 21:46
Subject: just 46 days left
Anonymous wrote:Schools should start day after Labor Day and end first week of June. No need to celebrate everyone’s holiday. Let people take their holidays with no academic policy and go back to a schedule that has worked for decades.
Yes, I agree. This is how it was when I was growing up and it was the best! I got to be outside with my friends all summer. I hate it how now everything revolves around childcare and camps. It ruins everything. I can’t even enjoy my time off with my kid now because there’s always multiple vans or buses of summer camp kids wreaking havoc on any day trip we try to do. Even our own neighborhood pool or rec center! It’s ridiculous!
Anonymous
07/06/2025 20:30
Subject: just 46 days left
Schools should start day after Labor Day and end first week of June. No need to celebrate everyone’s holiday. Let people take their holidays with no academic policy and go back to a schedule that has worked for decades.
Anonymous
07/06/2025 13:43
Subject: just 46 days left
The very short summer is proof that schools are mostly a babysitting service these days. It's all about the parents now, not our burned out kids. High school students in particular are incredibly burned out by the long school year that hust keeps going and going and is geared toward providing daycare for K-8. I've long advocated that high school should run on a separate, shorter calendar of its own. So glad our youngest only has one more year of high school.
Anonymous
07/06/2025 13:36
Subject: just 46 days left
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pass it on to your SB rep: Cut a week out of winter break and move school planning to the beginning or end of the year and we can have a longer summer.
Very few parents want less than 2 weeks. I love the 2 week break and many divisions do this. They CAN get rid of some of the random floating days to decrease school year.
Veteran’s Day- Should be in school. Was for years and all of a sudden it is now a holiday.
Make some of the religious holidays TWD and get rid of other teacher workdays.
Next year, if they got rid of Veteran’s Day, had school on Columbus Day and made Diwali a TWD, and got rid of the TWD after spring break, we would be ending school June 12 vs June 17.
I agree with school on Veteran’s Day and bring back the assemblies we used to have. It was a better use of the day. I like having Columbus Day off.
Get rid of all of the religious holidays, teacher workdays and busy work PD that is useless. That would solve the issue. Most of the meetings on teacher workdays/PD days are awful.
Students and teachers can take off for their own religions without penalty. Let us start the year later and end earlier. -teacher
You’re a teacher and you’re unaware that Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day is not a day that teachers have off? It’s been a teacher workday for about a decade.
Anonymous
07/06/2025 10:28
Subject: just 46 days left
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pass it on to your SB rep: Cut a week out of winter break and move school planning to the beginning or end of the year and we can have a longer summer.
Very few parents want less than 2 weeks. I love the 2 week break and many divisions do this. They CAN get rid of some of the random floating days to decrease school year.
Veteran’s Day- Should be in school. Was for years and all of a sudden it is now a holiday.
Make some of the religious holidays TWD and get rid of other teacher workdays.
Next year, if they got rid of Veteran’s Day, had school on Columbus Day and made Diwali a TWD, and got rid of the TWD after spring break, we would be ending school June 12 vs June 17.
I agree with school on Veteran’s Day and bring back the assemblies we used to have. It was a better use of the day. I like having Columbus Day off.
Get rid of all of the religious holidays, teacher workdays and busy work PD that is useless. That would solve the issue. Most of the meetings on teacher workdays/PD days are awful.
Students and teachers can take off for their own religions without penalty. Let us start the year later and end earlier. -teacher
Anonymous
07/04/2025 12:20
Subject: Re:just 46 days left
Teacher here. I'm enjoying the heck out of my summer break. I do tutor 2 days a week, but this is glorious. My own kids are grown, I've got next to no other responsibilities. But, I could see how a parent might be freaking out that there are so many more days to do the work of caring for kids.
Anonymous
07/04/2025 11:27
Subject: just 46 days left
I am a teacher and it feels short. I can go back 8/8 which seems so early!
Anonymous
07/04/2025 11:24
Subject: just 46 days left
People here have to complain about everything! It's summer, it's beautiful outside, go enjoy!!!
Anonymous
07/04/2025 11:03
Subject: just 46 days left
Just settle into July and enjoy an entire month off!
Anonymous
07/04/2025 10:54
Subject: just 46 days left
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pass it on to your SB rep: Cut a week out of winter break and move school planning to the beginning or end of the year and we can have a longer summer.
I hate this proposal. My family loves a longer Christmas break.
We could have both but that’s too much for the SB to conceptualize.
Anonymous
07/04/2025 10:52
Subject: just 46 days left
Anonymous wrote:It is seriously annoying the high school kids do not have enough time for jobs and internships before it is back to school.
And with the intense pressure on the kids they have to make all their money in the summer so they can focus on school and extracurriculars.
10000%
Anonymous
07/04/2025 03:40
Subject: just 46 days left
Anonymous wrote:Pass it on to your SB rep: Cut a week out of winter break and move school planning to the beginning or end of the year and we can have a longer summer.
I hate this proposal. My family loves a longer Christmas break.
Anonymous
07/03/2025 23:27
Subject: just 46 days left
What are you complaining about already? We are only in our 3rd full week of summer vacation. We are not even over the hump yet! Chill out!
Anonymous
07/03/2025 21:11
Subject: just 46 days left
Anonymous wrote:Our summer is too short.
Summer vacation should have started after memorial day
It is not too short
Anonymous
07/03/2025 21:06
Subject: Re:just 46 days left
What is interesting is the 26-27 calendar which has fewer days off for students and gets out later than 25-26.