Longer school year. Yay or Nay

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Originally Posted by CrazyKell

I'm all for year round schooling.

I taught at a school that had 1 week off in October, 2 in December, 1 in February, 2 in April, 1 in May, and 4 in August. You still got the feeling of summer without the brain drain that most kids go through.

As for teachers using those breaks to update their education, not really possible and means no vacation for the teachers. And bitch however much you want about teacher's vacation (and yes, there will be bitchers), but you wouldn't work a full year without vacation.

I guess I'll be the bitcher since no one else is stepping up. When you taught you had 11 freaking weeks of vacation and I can only guess that is in addition to the single days off also peppered throughout the school year. How much of that time was really spent "updating education"? If the school system dropped some of those 11 weeks you can't tell me teachers would end up with "no vacation". If their actual vacation amounted to 2, 3, or even four weeks they would still be doing about as well as most of us slobs working normal jobs.