lynn Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 The local schools are off on Wed-Fri but I have a lot of friends who have this entire week off.?? New trend? We are doing school Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday for my 8th grader if he does get his his math and science study guide completed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy in FL. Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 It's new this year where we live. I was a bit surprised! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 It varies, depending on when they start and how late they go. Now that Texas changed its rules and they have not way to be done by Memorial Day, my local ISD takes the whole week off. GW's school is in session M and T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ours don't have the week off. They get Wed-Fri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ours have been off the whole week for a few years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carriede Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Our public schools take the whole week off and have since we moved here 4 years ago. But they also start on August 1st... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 In our district, kids don't have the entire week off. They do have next Monday off to go deer hunting. Otherwise, too many kids wouldn't show up at school, or so the story goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom23Boys Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Schools in my area have been off for the whole week since at least my childhood. I am 34 and live in Louisiana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ours only have Thurs-Fri. This is due to the fact that Michigan, under pressure from the tourist industry, passed a law that PS can't start before Labor Day weekend. Due to the late start, they had to decrease days off at the holidays. This year's Christmas vacation for the local district will be the shortest ever. They'll be back to school for Thursday and Friday, Jan. 1st and 2nd, and since Easter is so late that they can't combine that with Spring break, they are not going to give Good Friday off. I think other school districts in the county are planning on Good Friday, just ours local is not. However, for any of them, that could change if this is a hard winter and they have lots of snow days that need to be made up. If that law had not been passed, then school would start a week or two before Labor Day, and the kids would have a longer Thanksgiving and Christmas break. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 They also have the whole week off here--been like that for a few years now. They also started 1 Aug. But our local school district also schedules a fall break in Sep and a winter break in Feb along with the standard Christmas and spring breaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welovetoread Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Our district here in Central Wi, they have off either Wednesday and others have off Thursday and Friday. Bigger districts have off next week monday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 They also have the whole week off here--been like that for a few years now. They also started 1 Aug. But our local school district also schedules a fall break in Sep and a winter break in Feb along with the standard Christmas and spring breaks. Same here. All of it. And I really like the schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior! Academy Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I just checked ours and it does not even though it started August 19. They are just off Wed. through Fri. Our schools have always started a couple of weeks before labor day and ended mid-May. A week off at Thanksgiving, when my children were in public school, would have been nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Same here. All of it. And I really like the schedule. Me too! We'd been running our homeschool on a similar schedule and found we all needed the break after about 6 weeks of work. The couple of years we were in a co-op that didn't take a break were exhausting! PS--thanks for not changing your avatar when you changed your name. I get completely confused when people go in and change both at once. Actually I think the name changes are less confusing for me than the avatar changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashfern Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 It's the norm in my county. They have a weird schedule where they have a week off every 6-8 weeks. They start in early Aug. and the Thanksgiving break is their 2nd week break since the start of school. Would drive me nuts if my kids were in the public school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wabi Sabi Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 It's new for our local public school system. They started early this year, but they got a fall break (also new) and now a full week for Thanksgiving. Also, I live in a town with a very large state university. It's also the first year ever that the college students have gotten the full week off for Thanksgiving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenKitty Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Here it's only Thurs & Fri off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Me too! We'd been running our homeschool on a similar schedule and found we all needed the break after about 6 weeks of work. The couple of years we were in a co-op that didn't take a break were exhausting! PS--thanks for not changing your avatar when you changed your name. I get completely confused when people go in and change both at once. Actually I think the name changes are less confusing for me than the avatar changes. Haha! I changed my avatar a few weeks or a month ago or something. No way would I change both at the same time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Schools in my area have been off for the whole week since at least my childhood. I am 34 and live in Louisiana. I'm almost 37 and have spent most of my life in either MA or CA. Everywhere I've lived has had the full week off at Thanksgiving. Lots of people travel for the holidays (we used to go visit my grandparents in AZ when I was a kid) so it makes sense to have the full week off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Our district is just Thursday Friday off. Wednesday is a 2 hour early release. We also have a law that says school cannot start until after Labor Day. We call it the Kings Dominion law, because it's important for an amusement park to have input in how schools are run. Schools will be in session until June 20, which is insane. Brains stop functioning 3 weeks earlier. National exams like AP and IB are given the beginning of May, so students have less time to learn the material and then six weeks of nothing to do -- my ds watched several seasons of The West Wing during his government class after the AP exam was given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetMissMagnolia Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 as far as I can remember,schools here have always had the whole week......(mississippi) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ours are off Weds-Fri, so since we're taking the whole week to travel, DD is missing a cheer practice tonight. Oh, well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 We've had the full week off for the last 8 years, but have moved to a different state and now only have Wed-Fri off. Of course, after all the snow, today became a snow day anyway :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Wednesday to Friday off here, and that's the norm in this area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Wednesday- Friday off for dd as well. She's excited she has school on her birthday (tomorrow) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Only Thursday/Friday. We start after Labor Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 When we lived in Georgia, the schools were closed all week. This would have been at least as early as the late 1990s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Kate Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Public schools here have the whole week off, but my kids' private school has Wednesday through Friday off. It's been this way for at least the past few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I wish our district had the whole week off! We always did when I was a child. I really didn't want to take younger ds to school this morning. Having said that, we're doing school today and tomorrow, and we probably still would, even if the public school had the whole week off. I'm kind of regretting it, though. I have so much work to do, and trying to get this math test done is draining my will to live! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xixstar Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Our system just removed that a couple years ago - they used to do a week off at thanksgiving and then no spring break at all. I'm glad they changed it because once spring gets here, there are very few days off, the break is nice then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRG Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Our district has been doing this for about 6 years now. The last couple of years I've decided to take the whole week off, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 It's been a full week of vacation ever since I was a kid. My inclination is to say we have 1 week at Thanksgiving and double that for Christmas. My dd15 goes to public shool so she's off this week, but my homeschooling son will work today and tomorrow. We just can't afford to take off all week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Some of our schools are taking the whole week off. Others are letting out early on Wednesday. Talk about confusing. Glad I don't have to worry about it! :laugh: But yes, I think this is the first year I've seen anybody letting out for the whole week. (Arkansas) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbeym Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Our schools have always had the entire week off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 My hometown school had off last week for deer season and this week for Thanksgiving, growing up I think it was just a Friday for deer season and Wed-Fri for Thanksgiving. The school district we are in now just has off Wed-Fri. We are taking off this week in our homeschool because I made the schedule and I want time to prepare for T-giving, birthday party and put up Christmas decorations besides Dh will be off Thurs and Fri which makes schooling considerably harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Here they get Weds-Friday off. There is school today and tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Public school here has off Wed.-Fri. They started a few years ago when they finally realized people were going to pull their kids on Wednesday (usually to travel) no matter what. From what I heard, a few charter schools and private schools have all week off. I'm making ds do school today and giving him off the rest of the week. We have family in town plus several events scheduled with our homeschool teen group, so I know he wouldn't concentrate anyway. I might as well not fight it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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