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Originally Posted by MTVN
I heard on the radio that some places in the US have like 3 months off and that summer camp can cost $10,000 a month
I think 6 weeks is probably about right but I can see the arguments for shortening it and spreading holidays out a bit with longer half terms or Christmases
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$10K/mo sounds excessive to me, but I think it really depends on where they live. The US is a big place so the economy around here varies quite a bit. I would expect to see that price tag though for some private schools (especially Catholic or other well-established community schools...)
As for 3 months off,
that's correct... when we were kids, we were out at the very tail end of May and latest we went back was beginning of September. Then later years it changed to late August. The schedule is similar now, afaik. There is a small break around Thanksgiving time (of course) in November and then the semester breaks nearer to Christmas in December and resumes in early January.
We're looking at home schooling for a few reasons, but mainly because kids are coming out as not being able to read and write, not able to do math properly and not even able to socialize (which you would think would be the point???). I was in AP/Honors in school where we did things more out of the box, so not having those basic things down would be a deal breaker for me...
I like our long summer vacations though, but we have the weather for it. We do have "summer school" in the US which usually doesn't cost? It's still public school, but if it costs at all, it's not much. I feel like the gap gives enough time to have adventures and explore being a little growing person with your friends, but can understand that parents can't afford it if they have to pay for daycare (something we don't do)... but if we did our own schedule or even private, I'd probably opt to supplement at home during the summer just because the "getting out there" part is not as hard as it was when we were kids. The library also does a summer reading program so we would do this also.