Snow days delaying NE schools summer break?

[CyndiLooWho]

Hi all

Here in the near South, when we have more than 4 snow days in a school year, we do extra days at the end of school. It nearly killed the only trip we took to WDW, when we were supposed to leave June 12 and school got out almost 3 wks late - we left 2 days after school finished (we are usually scheduled to be out before Memorial Day).

We have had almost no snow days (frantically knocks desk), so I expect to get out May 22. We are scheduled to leave for USF June 5, b/c I was expecting to go late again this year.

Will NE schools get out later this year and will Orlando be a little less crowded that week? Or will everyone just stick with their vaca schedules and skip out on the last bit of school?

 

[OZMom]

Every school district is different, especially if you divide them up state by state. A lot of the schools in our area have had a bunch of snow days, but our town has only had about 4. Also, some schools have built in "padding" for snow days because it is a way of life up here.

If we get anymore they may decide to take them out of spring vacation rather then add them on at the end of the year.

However, we don't get out until mid June normally, so even without snow days many New England students will still be in school during your vacation.

I don't know how much it will effect crowd levels honestly. I would assume very little, if at all.

 

[Capang]

Last year several districts here had to make up days, some made up weeks. Other districts have extended school days and didn't have to make up one. My district had nearly 3 weeks of snow days and none had to be made up due to extended hours. This year many districts here started in early August because of testing schedules and are due to be out before Memorial Day. I doubt it will make a huge difference in park attendance since there no longer seems to be any "slow" days at the parks anymore.

 

[CyndiLooWho]

So I should just plan for things to be moderate to busy (the crowd calendars disagree pretty widely on this week). I was trying to beat the NE schools when we booked this, but not have to pull my own kids out if we had to make up a lot of days. I know when we lived in NJ, we had one snow day in 4 winters. But here in KY, we've missed as many as 15 days in the last few years, and gone as much as 3 wks longer, and We don't even live in the mountain counties.

After last winter, our county increased school time by about 10 min per day, to help dig out if we need to.

 

[bakerjay]

I don't know of any NE schools (I grew up in NY, live now in CT) that get out of school before mid-June (somewhere btw 6/15 - 6/20). With snow days, we are on track to get out of school 6/19 this year. A lot of NY schools I know of get out later, even without snow days. I can't vouch for anywhere other than NY/NJ/CT but that's what it's like here.

 

[CyndiLooWho]

WOW. After virtually no snow for us this winter, we are set to get 6-12" overnight tonight. Thank goodness we already have tomorrow off for the holiday! (I think we actually went to school President's Day last year, as a snow make-up day).

 

[Mjkre]

NY schools around me do not get out until end of third week in June.

 

[stormer]

On Long Island we go to school until June 26.

 

[debster812]

Massachusetts here. In most cases, the towns here have already had between 5-10 snow days. We are required to be in school for 180 days, and for the most part, the public school teacher's contracts state they cannot go past June 30th. Towns and school districts are going to start getting creative. Extending school days, taking away planned days off, taking away days from April school vacation. There have been precedents where schools can get waivered to not have to attend all 180 days.

So my long winded reply to the OP is that every MA public school will be out on June 30th at the latest.

 

[ccvh]

I was trying to figure out why you were concerned about whether there would be hoards of visitors from Nebraska the first week of June....

 

[olszie]

I live in Central Florida and I know Central Florida schools are out then. The crowds do pick up with the locals going before the tourists get here.