How long did your school give you off for christmas when you were a school child?

[Spinneret]

About 2 weeks from about the 19/20th December to 4 January

 

[design_mom]

It depended on where in the week the holidays fell. Usually about 2 to 2.5 weeks -- often the Friday before Christmas Eve till the Monday after the New Year.

 

[tvguy]

2 weeks. I still live in the same school district and it still is 2 weeks.
My Granddaughter lives in the Los Angeles Unified School District and they take 3 weeks.

Schools here are out a lot more than when I was in school. A week for Thanksgiving instead of just Thursday and Friday. A week for President's DAY, instead of just one day. And every Thursday is a half day for students, the other half day is for teacher prep time.

 

[Meriweather]

2 weeks

 

[barkley]

2 weeks but the district changed to 3 weeks a couple of decades after I graduated b/c they had a large population that would travel and not return for the first week back. major pushback from the majority of the parents but the district said they were getting financially dinged by the state so they would extend Christmas break for a week and shorten summer to make up for it.

 

[E&Cmom]

About 2 weeks . The same as the schools in my area now.

 

[tvguy]

2 weeks but the district changed to 3 weeks a couple of decades after I graduated b/c they had a large population that would travel and not return for the first week back. major pushback from the majority of the parents but the district said they were getting financially dinged by the state so they would extend Christmas break for a week and shorten summer to make up for it.

That happened to a district in an adjacent city. But in their case, it came down to over half the kids were truant for the first week of January, and the parents thought the school district was wrong for even thinking for starting back that soon.

 

[barkley]

That happened to a district in an adjacent city. But in their case, it came down to over half the kids were truant for the first week of January, and the parents thought the school district was wrong for even thinking for starting back that soon.

the parents in the district I attended that were against the change to 3 weeks argued that the district should be enforcing the truancy laws instead of disservicing the law abiding student's parents by creating a situation where they had to make arrangements for an extra week's childcare for younger students (it was common for parents to hoard vacation time so one or the other was home for the 10 days off the traditional scheduale necessitated, when it was bumping up to 15 days it was time off without pay for many).

 

[tvguy]

the parents in the district I attended that were against the change to 3 weeks argued that the district should be enforcing the truancy laws instead of disservicing the law abiding student's parents by creating a situation where they had to make arrangements for an extra week's childcare for younger students (it was common for parents to hoard vacation time so one or the other was home for the 10 days off the traditional scheduale necessitated, when it was bumping up to 15 days it was time off without pay for many).

Yeah, this district had a large population of families that went home to Mexico for the holidays. Not sure how the parents managed the time off, but they did.
Yeah, I lived the juggling act with vacation time with my kids when they were young. My wife and I never had more than 4 weeks vacation a year, and complicated by both being in jobs in which ALL holidays were normal work days. But, that is why I worked graveyard shift until our youngest was 14. Even when we were working, one of us was always home with the kids, albeit asleep. Actually, a lot of my kids friends were at our house during the day during summer vacation while I was asleep. Their parents felt their kids were safe since I was there. And the kids were just happy to have a place to hang out, and were VERY mindful of keeping the noise down so I could sleep. But they knew if something happened, they were free to have my kids wake me up. Funny thing is, at least 10 years after I stopped working overnight shift, when my daughter and one of her friends was 24, she made some noise and was concerned she would wake me, forgetting I hadn't working graveyard in a decade.

 

[Mirabell Rose]

I’m sure fewer days than I wanted but more days than my mother wanted us out of school. Any more
Than that has faded from my memory. My grown children always had 2 weeks off.

 

[amcnj]

It was basically a week, but could be slightly longer depending on the days of the week Christmas and New Year’s Day fell. For example, occurring on Wednesdays this year, they are off from Saturday December 21 through Wednesday January 1.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

It depended on where in the week the holidays fell. Usually about 2 to 2.5 weeks -- often the Friday before Christmas Eve till the Monday after the New Year.

This is the way I remember it being too.

 

[EACarlson]

I always had 2 full weeks off. Our last day was the Friday before Christmas and then came back two weeks later. My kids in school now get from 6-8 days off of school. They are off starting today but go back on 1/2. They don't like hearing about how I got two weeks off when I was a kid. My wife, who grew up near where we live now, also only got a week and a half.

 

[Praying Colonel]

About 2 weeks--usually the Friday before Christmas to the Monday after New Years.

 

[ncc1701]

It was basically a week, but could be slightly longer depending on the days of the week Christmas and New Year’s Day fell. For example, occurring on Wednesdays this year, they are off from Saturday December 21 through Wednesday January 1.

That was how it was when I grew up too. I live in another town but in the same County & the schools here are about the same.

 

[ClaraOswald]

I think it was 2-2 and a half weeks. But it's been too long so I can't recall.