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Just a few years ago, kids in public schools only got Thursday & Friday off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but now, most of them get the entire Thanksgiving week to kick back and relax.
Do you think we should go back to how it used to be, and give the kids just two days of vacation for Thanksgiving, or are you fine with them having the entire week off from school?
Talk about it….
Unless they’re shoveling snow and chopping down firewood for their grandparents and all the neighbors, they don’t need the entire week off. Kicking back and relaxing, relaxing and kicking back. I don’t think so!
The number of required school days and hours seems to be in a constant reduction mode. All schools need to go to all year education because at this rate why bother with sending them in the first place.
The only reason for all of these extra vacation days isn’t for the kids, it’s for the teachers. They need to work. How many other businesses do you know that close for months in the summer, several weeks in the winter and a few more days here and there throughout the year and stay in business?
While I don’t have children and don’t really know their tolerances, I’m partial to the week off schedule. It would work for me to have a week off for Easter, a week off for Thanksgiving, and a week off for Christmas. That’s three weeks off per year, but I also feel a year ’round schedule with heavy emphasis on science and math would be beneficial at this point. A day that spanned 9 am to at least 3 pm wouldn’t hurt, either. Might as well understand fully what it is going to be like working for a living so one can carefully chose a career they will be satisfied with, not just a job to get by. What do some of the rest of you feel? Is that too difficult a schedule? Are California’s test scores so low because students are expected to do too much?