Why do children have to have so many school holidays?
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Our school district designates certain days as "Teacher Work Days" or "Teacher Development Days" when students cannot be on campus. These are important days that allow teachers to spend time needed to plan, collaborate and generally improve their teaching skills by attending workshops and conferences. With most of the school year spent in the classroom, teachers hardly have time to meet with other teachers to collaborate, plan, explore new teaching techniques or improve their skills.\n\nAfter a school day or on Friday, most teachers (at our school at least) take loads of work home to grade, etc. Some teachers regularly come in on the weekend, too. A few days spread out during the school year without students provides necessary non-student time during the work week that teachers really need.\n\nI agree that the child care issue is a problem for those households with two parents who work. However, if a school year calendar is provided which tell parents when non-student days are scheduled, couldn't parents arrange child care well ahead of time? Before I became a teacher six years ago--when I had children at home--I reviewed the school year calendar when I got it before the end of the current school year and arranged childcare well ahead of time. Just a thought.
350418
Because the schools have decided to extend the summer vacations to give the over-paid and underworked professors more time than they need.  As a result, they cram all this crap into a few months, when it should be about double the time.  Also the students are used to tons of time, so how can the institutions change that?
668298
Hi. Ok, repetition isn't bad and always necessary, but explainig mathematical things, or every subject, with a relation to daily life is very important. It helps the child understand easy as well as complex matters.
841983
NO because kids already have way too much time off from school. How can they learn if the school is closed??\n\nI'd expect a question like this to come only from a child who hated going to school.
100701
We have them in my school. The kids are amazingly responsible...but it's an overseas international school (with kids from over 40 different countries). The rules are totally different over here.
1006952
The reason society proposed summer holidays is so that the children could work in the fields (this is also the original reason).\n\nThe geographical reason for summer holidays is that it is hot in the summer, and schools can save on their air conditioning bills.  It is also the time when most people take a vacation (would you want to visit the Statue of Liberty while it was snowing.)
100652
Definitely. Less of a chance for children to "forget" what they learn. They will still have the same amount of days off, just spread throughout the year.
517326
I think that kids do need a break for the Summer.  Plus the parents too.  We do so much during the school year as far as school work and activities.  The break allows us to regroup.  I think the Summer break also gives some kids a chance to mature a little bit before starting a new school year, like the kids who started Kindergarten early.
111554
Mainly because of poverty. Just to make both ends meet, children were forced to work despite young age.
728640
Because sometimes there is work to be done on the holidays and someone has to do it.\n\nSome services do not close - eg. fire fighters, ambulance service, hospitals, police, phone companies...etc.\n\nAnd if the services don't stop, someone has to do the work.
347167
Yeah, we motivate kids to learn English by playing games, but it cause too much energy and time while kids these days are really hard to be controlled! You could try to give them presents i.e stickers, bookmarks, pencils etc. We do that here and it's pretty effective.
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No, it's unreasonable to expect people to take several days out of their workweek, possibly have to either arrange for childcare or pull their children out of school on top of the costs of travel, food, lodging, etc involved in attending an "out of town" wedding.\nRetirees or the independantly wealthy may have no trouble with this but for average folks, it's an awfully deep financial and logistical burden.
558198
I don't think so! I think that it is harder for kids to go back to school and remember what they were doing after such a long break (I remember struggling to hold a pen again when I was little after a long break!) I think it also encourages teenage crime as people get bored and have nothing to do.
564643
i very much disagree. kids spend most of the year in school.. sometimes they just need a break. not only from school.. but to maybe focus on other things besides school work. like family. and to go explore the world. see new places. get a job. just enjoy the summer.
355293
Children do not respect rules and often teachers allow children to get away with things to make their lives easier.\n\nI work in a school and a lot of teachers threaten children with detentions, but never carry them out because they'd have to give up time at lunchtime or after school.
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The work is rewarding - the children and their parents/carers are fantastic at my school, and it is a great pleasure and privelege to work there - but the workload is really intense and never lets up, and you find yourself spending half the holidays unwinding and catching up on your paperwork and laundry, etc and then preparing for the next term, with just a few days or weeks having a normal life of your own.  It is incredibly hard work, you often find you are working 60 hours a week, and you need supportive and understanding friends and family, as it's sometimes difficult to have time and energy to have a life - but you do need a life outside teaching as you would otherwise burn out or become isolated.  However, the kids are fantastic!
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The public schools in my city need smaller classes, the teachers are worn out with all these children in one class and trying to teach and quiet half of them do in order to teach,therefore lots of time gets wasted and only 1/2 the lesson planned for that day gets taught.  Also they need books, the teens in highschool barely have homework because they can't take the books home.....I'll just leave it at there