Do you have Veterans Day off?

[tvguy]

Most said their schools or schools in their area or schools in their district. Not sure why you felt the need to confirm or dispute such a thing.

Story of my life, I guess. I'm the one.......when people say the copier is broken.......puts paper in it and it mysteriously is fixed. Have a great holiday weekend.

 

[JVL1018]

We don't get Veteran's Day off in school. All kids 3rd grade and above go to the high school in the afternoon and they have a ceremony honoring the veterans. They ask all veterans in town to come and participate.

We are a public school and get Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah off, Election Day if its a Presidential Election(teachers work as its an in service day) 2 days of election week for the NJ Teachers Convention, Thanksgiving and the day after, a week or so at Christmas, starts with a 1/2 day on the 23rd (unless it falls on a weekend and then it's a half day on the Friday before)and back to school 1/2.

MLK off for kids, not teachers,we have off Presidents Day and the day after, Good Friday and another week in April, often it encompasses Good Friday if Easter is late enough, more often we get Good Friday and the week following Easter.

This year bc Easter is so early, it's Good Friday off, in school the week after and then vacation the week after that. Off Memorial Day and then that's it until school gets out at the end of June.

Any religious holiday is excused, but the only ones given to all are Yom Kippur, Rsh Hashanah, Christmas and Good Friday.

My husband is working, the only time I had it off was when I worked at a bank. Pretty sure the town hall and DPW has it off here.


ETA:this year we went to school on the convention days bc we had a week off the prior week due to Sandy..and AC where the convention is held, was not ready for any guests..
Last year bc of the Oct snowstorm that closed school for 3 days, they had the kids come in on MLK Day to make one if the day up..so nothing's set in stone.

 

[Hrhpd]

I was just surprised by how many folks said "schools in my state don't take that day off" so checked the largest school district in their state.

Just an FYI for all your "fact checking." Denver Public schools is not the largest school district in the state. Far from it. Jeffco is the largest.

 

[Allison]

Story of my life, I guess. I'm the one.......when people say the copier is broken.......puts paper in it and it mysteriously is fixed. Have a great holiday weekend.

I guess it didn't work in this case. It does however illustrate why people should be a bit careful about the personal information they post. You never what stranger will go looking for information about you and where you are.

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

Our schools are out on Monday. After Tuesday comes two weeks of early release until Thanksgiving. They used to just be off a week. Now it's almost two weeks of having them home at 11.

If I am understanding this right this would drive me insane.

 

[disney1990]

Unpatriotic maybe a better word.

What state are you in?

MLK day is a school holiday for every school around here.

Columbus Day.....there was a big push to drop it as a school holiday because some considered it politically incorrect......but it was in the teachers contract, and they could never come to an agreement that would allow it to be dropped.


I consider New Years, Washington's Birthday , Cesar Chavez Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas to be holidays that all schools observe. Hit and miss holidays in the schools, MLK day usually is...... Lincolns birthday but here some school districts move it to the day after President's Day and tack on 3 non-instruction days to take the whole week off........Good Friday......and Day after Thanksgiving.

"Unpatriotic" perhaps. But, what do these kids do when they have the day off? They watch television, go shopping with their parents, work on homework. They rarely do anything "while at home" to honor the holiday. At least at a lot of schools, they do some sort of recognition. IMHO It's not a school holiday where we live.

 

[shellybaxter]

"Unpatriotic" perhaps. But, what do these kids do when they have the day off? They watch television, go shopping with their parents, work on homework. They rarely do anything "while at home" to honor the holiday. At least at a lot of schools, they do some sort of recognition. IMHO It's not a school holiday where we live.

Actually in our community this is one of the few "days off" where the kids - or at least some of them - do participate in the holiday. We have a parade and local youth organizations march - other kids watch. Veterans march as well. Ceremonies are held afterward with speeches. Ceremonies are also held at the historical cemetery. The youth bands play at the ceremony. It's a family day here

 

[tvguy]

Just an FYI for all your "fact checking." Denver Public schools is not the largest school district in the state. Far from it. Jeffco is the largest.

I stand corrected. I suspect they moved Veterans Day to next week since they take the entire week off for Thanksgiving instead of the traditional Thursday and Friday.

 

[Andtototoo]

No. I haven't had Veterans Day off in over 15 years. My current job gives us very few holidays, although we do get the Friday after Thanksgiving off.

 

[laura.anne]

I live in Georgia. Right now I'm in college and we don't have off for Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, Cesar Chavez Day, Good Friday, Rosh Hashanah, etc. When I was in middle and high school (private school for elementary) we did not have off for Columbus Day or Veterans' day. Or Cesar Chavez Day, or Good Friday, or Rosh Hashanah, etc.