A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid

[DaveC426913]

Nope. The summer vacation could be from July 16 to August 01 every year. The school year rigidly starts on August 01, and the school year rigidly ends on July 16. Nope, no confusion there.

And this happens magically?

As someone who works as support staff in education, I can tell you that the work put in at graduation and the work required to start the new year are both quite a lot. 160 programs: faculty, syllabus, fees etc. all get updated. The workload can't overlap.

And remember, grade school, high school and college are in lockstep. You can't change onec without othout changing them all.

Staff need more than two weeks to wrap up the old year and refurbish everything for the new year. There's a little more to the cycle than ticking a desk calendar over from 2025 to 2026.

This is what the summer is for.

You are speaking about things you do not understand.

 

[BillTre]

You are speaking about things with great conviction you do not understand.

 

[PeterDonis]

It's more important than vacations.

Maybe for you. But not everyone shares your preferences. And there is no reason why your preferences should override everyone else's.

I think that two weeks is a proper amount of time for a summer vacation.

When I was in school, two weeks was barely enough time for me to get into the swing of summer vacation. I would have hated going back to school at that point.

 

[JT Smith]

It's a question of balance and clearly there is disagreement about that. Fortunately one person's preference doesn't decide.

If I were King many of you would not be happy with many of my decisions. If I were God I would probably be hated.