regentrude Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Our local university used to have classes on Monday+Tuesday, but a few years back they switched to giving students the entire week off. I taught a Tuesday class before that change; it was so not worth it. So, our students went home last Friday. My DD's school is at the other end of the spectrum: they have classes until Wednesday afternoon! Her 2pm class is not cancelled. I know the reputation of the school and it is part of the appeal - but this, I think, is just.... nuts. Anybody else's college have classes this afternoon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 My son's does. And this will be the first year he doesn't have an exam right after Thanksgiving break. As it's the last week of classes, professors have to get special permission to hold exams. But he's always had at least one science or math prof do it. On the other hand, my niece who goes to college nearby and comes to spend her break with us has nine days off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Oldest DS's last day was yesterday. Youngest DS (in CC classes through his early college high school) has classes today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 My daughter had today's classes cancelled but it was up to the individual instructor. She had all her classes yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Mine go through today. Some classes get cancelled at times, but certainly not all of them. Youngest son has been on his own (with friends) for Thanksgiving. Middle is fortunate to have an aunt who picks him up and brings him to our family gathering. We'll take him back Sunday, then return home ourselves Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoggirl Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Our local university used to have classes on Monday+Tuesday, but a few years back they switched to giving students the entire week off. I taught a Tuesday class before that change; it was so not worth it. So, our students went home last Friday. My DD's school is at the other end of the spectrum: they have classes until Wednesday afternoon! Her 2pm class is not cancelled. I know the reputation of the school and it is part of the appeal - but this, I think, is just.... nuts. Anybody else's college have classes this afternoon? Ds's school is off the entire week. Also on a quarter system, but he started a week earlier than your dd. I think they do that on purpose. Our local state flagship goes Monday and Tuesday. They have a two-day fall break in October. I think it woudl be better if they skipped that and let the students our all week, but I am not in charge. I have out-of-state friends whose ds goes to an out-of-state flagship. He is supposed to have classes on Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, and they schedule his flight home accordingly. However, more than one year he has had his classes canceled for Monday and Tuesday but not early enough to make a difference in their flight preparations for him. Profs do it last-minute. I'm sure they think it is a kind gesture, and I'm sure it works great for kids who are in-state and just hop in their cars and drive home. However, it's exceedingly frustrating for our friends whose ds has to fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBM Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 (edited) It's the prof's call at Northwestern. I think my son has only a math class today. Normally he'd have two other classes. He doesn't want to come home until Thanksgiving morning, though, so he can hang out with his friends who are sticking around. Translation: we're all going into the city to have fun until the wee hours of the morning. Several of his friends will be spending Thanksgiving with us. We are stocked to the gills with food. Our house is where everyone hangs out anyway so it's no biggie. I like having everyone over. The more, the merrier. Right after Thanksgiving is Reading Week, the week before finals when students can study. No classes. My son has to take his second placement exam for Latin as well. Not holding my breath on that one because it's poetry and will be a bugger for him. We fully expect he will be taking one quarter of Latin. LOL. Winter Break begins December 11th. Edited November 25, 2015 by MBM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 (edited) Yes, classes this afternoon! I was secretly hoping the instructor's would cancel! However, I'll add that they get a huge block off at Christmas. After Thanksgiving, they only have one more week of classes. Finals are the 7th-11th, and then they are off until January 11th! Edited November 25, 2015 by MerryAtHope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanetC Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 DD is dual-enrolled and has a full day of class today, but at a community college there are fewer kids who have long trips home for the holidays. I think colleges that draw from a wider geographical area should end classes earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elise Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Dd1 finishes this afternoon and will be riding the train home tonight! :party: Dd2 was the only person who showed up for her (local college) class last night--kind of annoying, but she got a 90-minute private lesson. :001_smile: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Today was the first day of the break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 We're out all week. I'm not calling it break week, it's catch-up week. :glare: I only had two classes on Friday where everyone showed up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 The university here has been closed all week, for the first time ever. I like it! The only day "off" this semester was Labor Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 This is the first year Georgia Tech has had Wednesday off. Last year DS had classes Wednesday afternoon. I remember having classes Wednesday afternoon when I was in school there, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechWife Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 DS has Wednesday-Friday off. He was able to drive home Tuesday after his last class ended. I wish they had Monday off so that they could drive back then and skip the traffic on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenaj Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 The official break from classes is from Wednesday through Monday at the college both of my kids attend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest2 Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 No classes here on Wednesday, but my son is at home working. The school doesn't have classes, but does have assignments. So my son has written a few short papers, a quiz, and a math set due by 3:30. Now Thanksgiving break can start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenneinCA Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 The community college that my older kids attend still has all of its Wednesday classes happening as usual. My kids only have Tuesday/Thursday classes so the only class they are missing because of the thanksgiving trip to visit my parents was the Tuesday class yesterday. The instructors, all four of them, were very accommodating of our travel plans. (We left on Saturday morning and will be back on Sunday. So they were gone about a week, but only missed the one class.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowbeltmom Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 My son's school also has classes today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Break starts today and no Tuesday classes (including evening ones) were cancelled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugs Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Daughter's last class will end at 4:20 pm today! We are under an hour a way with no traffic. Mostly though, there is a lot of traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 My 20yo's university is off all week. The cc where my 17yo is taking dual credit classes goes all the way through Wednesday night. She had class this morning. The charter school where I teach had a full day on Monday and a half-day on Tuesday. We had maybe 2/3 attendance on Tuesday and every teacher just showed movies or had a class party because the administration had us switch classes every 33 minutes so we could have every class meet even though we were only doing a half-day of school. All the schools around us took off this entire week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn- Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 My DD's DE school was out all this week. She has a conference with her instructor on Tuesday for her last essay and then her final is on Thursday (she just happens to be on the first day of finals for her one class). She will be out until Jan. 11th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 U.S. university located in Britain -- they're plowing ahead sans Thanksgiving break. They will have some sort of special dinner sometime this weekend. Plus they get out earlier than their U.S. counterparts, so they get a month off for Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Ds's school had classes until Wednesday. His Wednesday classes were cancelled so he got a ride home late Tuesday. I think they should do a week. They have a week for fall break. I think they should drop that and do a week at thanksgiving. Partly I think this because the school is so in accessible--it's in a tiny remote town without any transit (bus, plane, train) besides car. The nearest town with transit is a 4 hour drive. Thankfully, ds found some near home who has a car. I think the decision to require people to vacate campus should include analysis of whether or not students can easily get anywhere away from campus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 My son is getting this whole week off. That surprised me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 My son had classes scheduled through Tuesday afternoon and a dance rehearsal that evening. I could have picked him up late on Tuesday night, but he preferred to leave early on Wednesday, instead. It worked out for me, because my daughter flew in from NYC, and her plane arrived just after midnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. I wasn't looking forward to making the three- to four-hour round-trip drive to collect my son and then heading out in a different direction to the airport to pick up my daughter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny_Weatherwax Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 DS's school let out the Friday before (last Friday). I picked him up that night and brought him home. He has to be back Monday so we are leaving today. I want to clean his room a bit before heading home. His roommate chews and spits and the floor and wall by the trashcan are disgusting. DD's school has classes through Tuesday. I had to teach through Wed. I wish all three schools had the week off. It would have been more fun. At least this is a short break that somewhat coincided, unlike Spring break. Not one of the three schools (DS's, DD's or mine) has the same Spring Break. There are no opportunities for trying to coordinate plans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Thursday and Friday only; they do get 2 days off in October as well for fall break. Semester system. They also get split breaks in the second semester: 2 days off for Mardi Gras, 3 days off for spring break, which has to be hard on the students who would like to travel home. Some of the local unis manage the full week of spring break even though they have to close for Mardi Gras, so I'm not sure why they all can't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I'm late to the conversation, but ds's college was closed Wed-Fri. He doesn't have any classes on Tuesday, so he came home Monday and will be headed back tonight. Like ElegantLion though, it was a catch up week, not a week off. He has 4 papers due this coming week, one very major paper and 3 smaller ones. He spent all his time writing and revising and really only came out on Thanksgiving day to go to the ILs and some this weekend when my family was here. He's back in his room trying to get the final revision done on the big paper. He got one small one finished and another one started. The smaller papers aren't due until Friday, but without this week, he would have been in trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 DD is dual-enrolled and has a full day of class today, but at a community college there are fewer kids who have long trips home for the holidays. I think colleges that draw from a wider geographical area should end classes earlier. Honestly... when I was in college, I didn't expect to go home at Thanksgiving. just Christmas. Having a whole week off would have just made it more obvious that I WASN"T going home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Honestly... when I was in college, I didn't expect to go home at Thanksgiving. just Christmas. Having a whole week off would have just made it more obvious that I WASN"T going home. Ds's college closed the dorms for Thanksgiving. Paying extra to stay for the holiday would definitely have drawn attention to your decision. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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