Hello SiriuslyNsane, Art Slinger, Purpledoggy and AsH!

[Starbreeze]

That’s normal. Some states don’t start until June. It depends on when school goes back in session. Florida starts back in August. Some states don’t start the new school year until the beginning of September. 🙂

[Maria]

Yeah – but here we’ve got 5 weeks of summer vacation, and they start end of June. Not that that makes any different to me… 😆

[Starbreeze]

I think European schools have a longer school year than here in the States. I don’t know how they determine such things. There is a minimum number of days that schools have to be in session, but I don’t know what they base it on. 😕

[gryphondreamer]

probably politics.

[Bob]

I had 3 months for summer vacation when I was a kid

[Maria]

starbreeze wrote:

I think European schools have a longer school year than here in the States. I don’t know how they determine such things. There is a minimum number of days that schools have to be in session, but I don’t know what they base it on. 😕

Kids in the States get the summer off, supposedly to help on the farms. Here, though, we get things like ski vacation and extended weekends over Ascension and New Year’s and vacations vary from canton to canton (Catholic or Reformed). All in all I think we have about as much vacation as you – we just get it in smaller – and more frequent – chunks.

[Alyssa]

Dragon Master wrote:

I had 3 months for summer vacation when I was a kid

Yep that was the same for me.

[Bob]

OH the good old days!!

[gryphondreamer]

i was always shipped off to summer camp, so i dont know if it really was a vacation. no learning, but not alwas fun.

[Bob]

I never got to go to summer camp

[Alyssa]

I went a couple of times, but that is about it. I didn’t really like it that much.

[Starbreeze]

Greater Basilisk wrote:

starbreeze wrote:

I think European schools have a longer school year than here in the States. I don’t know how they determine such things. There is a minimum number of days that schools have to be in session, but I don’t know what they base it on. 😕

Kids in the States get the summer off, supposedly to help on the farms. Here, though, we get things like ski vacation and extended weekends over Ascension and New Year’s and vacations vary from canton to canton (Catholic or Reformed). All in all I think we have about as much vacation as you – we just get it in smaller – and more frequent – chunks.

Originally, I guess the vacations were so they could help on the farms, but a lot of us are city and suburb dwellers…no farms. 😀

[Bob]

maybe so back when there where no child labor laws

[gryphondreamer]

dragonessjade wrote:

I went a couple of times, but that is about it. I didn’t really like it that much.

i rarely liked it, but the rents kept sending me back! 😯

[Alyssa]

Oh no. Make them stop. hehe

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