I truly find this statement to be so bizarre and I couldn't let it go. Where is it that you got that 95% of all schools in the US are already out as of June 9th? I'm pretty sure all of the major school districts in the DC metro area are all still in session. We have our last day on Tuesday, June 14th and we are one of the first to finish. The largest school district in this region (and like the 12th largest in the US) has its last day on June 24th.
We leave for WDW on the 13th and hoping to get a little jump on the summer crowds. And just checking some of the largest school systems in the country, most are still in session (NYC, LA, Chicago). Just curious how you can paint such a broad brush. I would think if 95% of all school are already in summer, we'd be at a 9 crowd, not a 7.
Sorry - totally off topic but I just couldn't let it go. But I will now. LOL
Okay, the majority of Southern schools are out - which impacts crowds because everyone is in driving range to Disney (in some cases that range might be 12 hours, but still applicable because people want to save money on flying or *shudder* avoiding a two or three hour flight broken up by a layover in the Atlanta Airport). Obviously each school district sets their own schedule and snow days impact how much their summer breaks are pushed back, but the majority (if not all) in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, etc. - you get where I'm going with this - are out and have been for weeks (in many, many cases - they've been out since the end of May). I'm not sure on Florida's school schedules, but I know - based on friends in the area - that many let out this week and last.
I admit, I don't know the west coast school schedules - being that, I would assume, the vast majority of people on that side of the country would plan to go to
Disneyland, instead of Disney World, because it's more cost effective. But obviously there would be exceptions that prefer WDW, just as I'm sure there are exceptions in the eastern U.S. who prefer DLR.
This also doesn't include public colleges/universities - most of which try to have their graduations around the end of May and (as we know from these boards) many college graduates choose to go to Disney to celebrate that accomplishment.
But the fact remains: June and July are two of the busiest months of the year - reason being, that most people are on summer vacation and there is a heavy overlap on summer schedules for those months. This is why people in my tri-state area tend to go to Disney at the end of May - the crowds are a little lighter because not all schools are out until Memorial Day or sometime in June. This is also the reason that I know a lot of people choose to go in August - because many schools (especially in the states I mentioned) are already back in session, so in theory, it's not as crowded as June/July. For example - schools around me will be back in session the very beginning of August, making it appealing for the schools with the later schedules to go at that time.
24/7 MK. It's coming some day.
I'm looking forward to that day. Hopefully it happens in my lifetime
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