Originally Posted By DWlover Does anyone know when the US kids are returning to school from summer break (2009) - they normally return a little earlier than our Canadian kids - we want to take a trip WDW at the end of August/start of Sept 2009
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey It depends on the part of the country, I think. Here in New Orleans we usually start back the second week of August; however, I believe up north they don't start back until after Labor Day. I may be wrong about that, though.
Originally Posted By mele Labor Day is late this year (Sept 7th) so our school district (really far away from Florida) starts on Sept. 1st.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 It does vary from state to state. But here in Oklahoma we start in the middle of Aug.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Late August for most of Chicago area -- however the city itself if after labor day.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden Here in NJ we usually start after Labor Day, but that might change this year with it being so late.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Here in New Orleans we usually start back the second week of August*** Wow, that is nothing short of TRAGIC! I remember back in the day when we all had (most of) JUNE, JULY, and AUGUST OFF! First day of school was NEVER before Labor Day iirc!
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey ^^^^^But now we have part of May, all of June and July, and part of August off.
Originally Posted By u k fan Wow you guys have long Summer breaks! Here in UK most schools break mid-July and go back the first week of September. Do schools get much time off through the year?!!!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 we have 176 school days here -- any ones missed for snow etc have to be made up
Originally Posted By FerretAfros We had 180 days when I was in school. We usually started around the second week in August and went until Memorial Day (assuming no snow days to make up, so we usually went until a week after Memorial Day...). We got a couple 3-day weekends (Labor Day, MLK, Presidents Day), Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving, about two weeks for Christmas and New Years, a week for Spring Break, and occasionally an extra 3-4 day break in the fall for a fall break, but nobody really understood why we had that.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Do schools get much time off through the year?!!!>> Let's see: 3 days off for the Thanksgiving weekend. 2 weeks off for Christmas 1 week off for Spring break and 2-3 times per year they get two days off for Parent/Teacher conferences. Out here a lot of schools don't have A/C, so they try to avoid summer as much as possible.
Originally Posted By u k fan I just checked and here we have 190 days. So we must have more breaks through the year, although that does equate to an extra 3 weeks that Brit kids are in school!!!
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey We get: 1 day for Labor Day 1 week for Thanksgiving 2 weeks for Christmas 1 day for MLK Day 1 week for Mardi Gras 4 days for Easter Our parent/teacher conferences take place after school for a couple of hours, and we don't get days off for President's Day, Columbus Day, etc. We also don't have any half days, and we have an extended school day.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 although that does equate to an extra 3 weeks that Brit kids are in school!!! no wonder they took to singing on Pink Floyd albums
