Don families like the opportunity to take off-peak vacations?
01/08/2006 – Some do, but most families don’t take a vacation during every break and are burdened by the extra cost of child care during the frequent breaks and the difficulty of matching their schedules to the schedules of family members from other parts of the country they might like to visit. When the kids get older and enter middle school – and especially high school – the attraction of such vacations diminishes quite a bit. Elementary kids are still very much centered on parents and siblings and home. That doesn’t last. School clubs, bands, soccer, swim teams and other activities predominate students’ attention and desires after elementary school. Most of these activities will continue through all or most of the year-round calendar’s intersessions, especially the fall one. And the older a student gets the more important a full-length summer becomes. There is another thing about the proposed year-round calendar’s breaks that seems not to be realized much. One is that the winter bre
