I'm only going by schools here, but I'm sure it's the same or similar in other schools. Why is it that in terms of starting, ending and breaks, each school year is different? Sometimes school starts on Wednesdays and sometimes on Thursdays (and why not Monday for a full week?). Sometimes the last day is on Fridays and sometimes it's on Wednesdays. Most of the time Christmas break is two weeks and a day or so. However, during my sophomore year, I believe, at the high school here we had one week and one day of Christmas break -- we went Monday and Tuesday that first week So why's every year different? Discuss.
It all depends on when the days fall in the year, the school system, leap year or not, and some other factors like the year before or what the school board is doing. There's no one answer, it's due to a bunch of different factors. Its similar to how your birthday is not on the same day of the week every year. kinda.
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There's normally around 180 days in a school year. I think. Anyways, if each school years needs exactly 180 days, then people have to work around that and make breaks accordingly. It normally has a list of criteria to work with, ie. start in September, and in the xth week of June, etc. So if September 1 lands on Wednesday, that's the earliest school can start. More often, it starts after Labour Day because having a break that early in the year is sort of dumb. For high school, it ends in the first week of June, exams are the next 2-3 weeks and then done. For Christmas, they want break to start before Christmas, but they also want to squeeze in as many school days as possible, without going into half weeks. If Christmas is on a Wednesday, last day will probably be the 20th. But if Christmas lands on Sunday, you work until the 23rd. Break then goes to New Years. In Canada, it often goes at least until the 7th, because January 7th is Ukrainian Christmas. Not always, but often. Spring Break is normally a week at the end of March, Easter is wherever Easter lands that year. If Easter happens to be near Spring Break, you get 2 weeks of Spring Break, which encompasses Easter. Some districts have Fall Break which is the week of Remembrance Day. Then there's holiday weekends and PD Days are scheduled to fill in the remaining days. Personally, I think that school should start in August. Then exams would be written in December, then Christmas Break and a new semester would start in January. Then school would end in May and you would have June and July for summer. August is normally a bit chilly anyways.
It doesn't start getting cool at all till October here. August is just as, if not more so, hot as June and July. This is another point though, schools in different areas have to work around weather and other nature stuff, and since that's completely out of your control you have to work around it.
I've been late to school and been let of school early many times for snow or hurricanes. It can affect roads and driving conditions. Buses full of kids don't want to be driving to school when a blizzard or hurricane hits, so they either end school early, start school late, or don't come at all.
Oh, you're talking about the time it starts or ends, such as it not starting until 10:25 AM due to a two-hour delay. I thought you were talking about, say, school starting September 5, but then not starting until September 6.
Oh, yeah. Must have misunderstood. Still, one year I had a Christmas break extended by 3 days because of bad weather. Of course that wasn't the intent but you can see how some things happen unintentionally.
That can happen as well. I've had it happen in different variations, bad weather pushing the beginning of the year back a bit or too many snow days causing the school year to extend a bit to make sure we have time to finish curriculum.
Tell me how often Thanksgiving day lands on the same exact day (as in date, not day of the week). The offset of the months along with leap year makes schedules change. Schools adapt to those changes. So blame the Mayans, they didn't set up the calendar right.
Different school districts have different rules. For example, the county I live in gives days off of school for some Jewish holidays. However, I attend university in a different county, and no days off during Jewish holidays there, but we do get days off during obscure holidays like Veteran's Day.
