My kids last day of school is June 27. For those of you without a calendar, that's seven full days after the official start of summer. When I was a kid I would look at the school calendar and add up the random days off, then stack them at the end to see how much sooner we could end the school year.
They got two weeks off at Christmas and New Years. Two solid weeks. I got one as a kid, this is nuts. Meanwhile there's that random week off in February that the rest of the country seems to lack. Trim that year end break back to normal and cut off the winter fat and bring it up. We could be done so much sooner.
Of course if it were up to me they wouldn't see the inside of a classroom between Memorial Day and Labor Day. June, for the elementary and middle schoolers is filled with nonsense. It's all field days and parties of various sorts. Meanwhile the high schoolers are taking Regents exams that literally nobody but the high school administration cares about. Not a single college or university gives one single thought to Regents exams, but the NY school system still perpetuates the idea that it counts as college level and is seen as super advanced.
They all need to be fired.
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