They may be year round schools. They don’t get the three months in a row off like we used to. They get three or four breaks a year for a few weeks instead. And they are strange schedules.
And there are “Teacher in service” days. Where the kids do not go to school but the teachers get paid to go to school without kids. This steals days from the kids longer breaks because they are still required to go a certain number of days a year.
I have 12 Grandkids, and they all go to different schools with different schedules. It is a complete mess... A family can hardly make any vacation plans at all and still have all the kids go at once. I think it is a conspiracy to break up family union.
We traveled on business often in spring, summer, and fall across the south and everywhere we went around a Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, & Thanksgiving we encountered every imaginable junior or teen sports tournament.
Boys, girls, soccer, swimming, baseball, etc.—the 2, 3, or 4 day tourneys always fell on and around those holidays which meant school days off, and a shortened summer break to compensate. Which came first ? The helicoptering kids to tournaments to earn scholarships squeezed around holidays ? Or existing holidays which helicoptering parents put to their advantage.
It happened so often, without fail, I wondered if school boards were OK with kids dealing with dangerous heat if it meant a convenient mini-vacay “for the kids”.
FWIW.
My son taught in private schools for LD&BD kids for 30 years. They were year round, due to the need for these kids to have a controlled therapeutic school experience without losing ground. They had frequent 1 week breaks throughout the year, to diminish fatigue, I suppose. He now is an associate director at a college program. This is the first time he’s had the summer off in his career.