I’ve lived in NJ my entire life, Jersey week is when most public schools are off at least 3 days the first week of November for teachers convention. For whatever reason there are a lot of WDW fans here. We usually cruised from manhattan to avoid the high airfares that week.
the week that was (I think still is) popular for kids to be out here is whatever week veteran's day falls. the schools schedual parent teacher conferences 3 days of the week and then the kids have vet's day and one additional day off (I think the teacher's have an in-service on the additional day) so the kids don't attend for 5 full days. if you planned a vacation it was always a mad dash to hit up your kid's teacher for a conference the very beginning or end of the week (depending on how they fell) to facilitate travel.
It’s too much for no refund!