A friend of mine that is was rare to have the whole week off (around President's weekend). It seems about half of the districts around me have it off. It is often called "Ski Week" around here even though there is not much snow in the Mountains. Does your child have the week off or other schools near by?
I was thinking about 30% do, and notice Disneyland is predicated to be packed that week, so it might be more across the country.
Julie S. They get Spring Break too around Easter.
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No ski week here. I thought that was a back east thing.
My school will get a 5 day weekend (not me, one of those is teacher workday so we get a 4day weekend)
But my daughter in the next district over gets 2 Mondays off in a row and that's it. Bo-ring.
Here in Florida they will usually have an extra day for Presidents day weekend, but that's about it. I do notice (living so close to Disney World) that a lot of other areas have off that week because the parks get very busy.
I have family in up state NY and their kids are off that week.
Our district has always had the 3rd week in Feb off, mid winter recess, they call it. This year it's Feb 16th-20th.
:)
ETA: I've never heard it called "ski week" , but here in the Adirondacks in February, that's what people do.
Our schools don't give President's Day off, but we get Monday and Tuesday off for Mardi Gras, so it's all good.
Yes, mine has the week off - we're in northern CA. It seems that after xmas, they have a one week break every 6 weeks until the end of the year!
There's a 4-day weekend. Apparently the teachers think they need a day off on the 13th for "staff compensation." And here I thought they were compensated with a salary.
Sigh.
I wish we did back east it's very common. Here in la my kids have all the random days off instead. If prefer the entire week off instead of random days this way if you want to travel or do camps u can. Random days and working make it hard. They just added friday to presidents weekend last year now making it a 4 day weekend typically we do try to go out of town. Back east the week after is called "winter recess"
Nope, the students have President's Day, which is a teacher workday, and that is it.
Our schools give Friday and Monday off. Spring break isn't until March.
They get spring break in March and Easter break around Easter. I get the feeling the schools have the same number of days off but take them differently due to climate. You give us a week off in February the school board would probably get a middle finger. By March it is better.
No, but we get President's Day and one of the president's birthdays off (um, wasn't the idea to combine the birthdays into one holiday?), so two Mondays in a row (a big UGH from this working mom). I'm grateful now our district didn't add yet another week off! It's already crazy how much time our kids get off as it is.
Never heard of such a thing. The next holiday my kid gets off is Good Friday. We call this period between MLK day and Good Friday "the long stretch". :)
I have 2 kids in 2 different districts.
We have winter break in Feb. One has a week off.(The surrounding districts don't but we had a shorter break around Christmas/New Year than the other districts). The other has 2 weeks off (Year-Round School…starts first week in August)
Ski Week is a California thing... it used to be uniquely a Bay Area thing to consolidate/avoid missed school for trips to Tahoe :)
(I grew up in Mill Valley... Marin County... it was totally a thing)
I think the official name is "mid winter recess" these days, but many people, especially in Northern California still call it Ski Week.
We get a week of for county fair in February, just because so many kids in our district participate. We also have Spring break mid March.
President's Day is a normal school day here. My kids have the 20th off because that is parent-teacher conference day.
Spring break is the 3rd week of March.
We always have the whole week off after the Monday of Presidents Day. We also have a week in April - the Monday of Patriots Day (commemorating the Lexington/Concord "Shot heard 'round the world" which is only observed in MA and RI) and the following week. That Monday is always the running of the Boston Marathon and usually falls some time between the 15th and the 19th of April. All public schools in the state follow this calendar, and private schools make their own decisions.
The vacation has nothing to do with Easter, which makes me very happy. I don't think weeklong vacations necessarily should line up with a holiday of a particular religion. Our schools do close of some holidays due to the problem of insufficient staffing - these include Good Friday, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Individual students are excused with a parent's note for religious holidays including Eid, Passover, and any other major holidays. It's considered an excused absence.
We have a week in March called Spring Break. It was originally for spring planting in the farm states I think.
We normally have a four-day President's weekend, but one year we actually did get an entire week. I'm pretty sure it was due to when the Jewish holidays fell at the start of the school year making the district start the year earlier than normal, so they gave the extra days off in February.
We have February Vacation and April Vacation, in their respective months. Usually the 3rd week of those months. It's been that way here forever.
I'm in NH and we have the last week of Feb and then the last week of April off. Last year the school district tried to change it to just one week at the end of March and people went ballistic. The ski area's freaked out and said it's when they make most of their money and it would hurt the economy and I don't even remember what else. Needless to say nothing changed and I can understand why they call it ski week, although I've never heard it referred to that way.
Our "ski week" is the whole week of Thanksgiving, but my kids do have two three day weekends in a row in February.
