NYS is the same. School n ever started until after Labor Day.
Course, they could get out earlier in the early summer if they’d quit taking a day off about every two weeks for some *holiday* or *teacher training*. Then there’s a week for winter break and then a week for spring break.
Also, once into May, teaching pretty much ceases. Often there are parties and picnics and useless activities because the kids just kind of shut down when the nice weather happens.
I NEVER had off for Good Friday. In the schools, it was understood that there were days certain people took off for certain religions and…well…that was it. No teacher complained, nobody filed a complaint. It just “was.”
Certain national holidays like Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Memorial Day, MLK day, Colombus Day, Veterans Day, Presidents Day….we all got it. It’s part of being an American.
The Jewish kids didn’t complain about Christmas being a day off, but we Christian kids envied Hanukah (even if they really didn’t get 8 gifts). It was fun and we all learned a little something without it being a Big Deal.
As a Christian I didn’t feel a need to have the day off for non-Christian holidays.
Public schools - which should be abolished but since we’re here - should operate like we did decades ago…you get the standard national holidays, kids can take off whenever for whatever as long as your parents wrote a note, and call it quits by the second week in June.
Interestingly, homeschoolers are hard at work many of the days the public schools are off. Honestly, Montclair’s calendar is eye-opening. It’s also absurd. But we’re a problem.