02-25-2007, 04:20 PM
[quote voodoopenguin][quote davester]I'm with cbelt. I went to school in england until 8th grade, where the hours are much longer and the summer vacation only 3 weeks long.
Which England was this? Not the England as in the UK as our summer holidays have never been as low as 3 weeks, certainly not in the 50+years I know of and that is for both public and private education. Must have been a special school.
The school summer holiday starts towards the end of July and ends at the beginning of September so is usually 6 weeks long.
Interesting. Is it a regional thing? I went to school near Portsmouth in Hampshire. Public education. My recollection is 3 weeks, because our family would head out on a camping holiday the second we got out, and I'd return to school the day after we got back. Also, we weren't released until 4:30 pm each day. It was an incredible (good) shock moving to the US. Suddenly summer vacation was 3 full months and school was released at 2:30 pm. It felt like an all year vacation.
Which England was this? Not the England as in the UK as our summer holidays have never been as low as 3 weeks, certainly not in the 50+years I know of and that is for both public and private education. Must have been a special school.
The school summer holiday starts towards the end of July and ends at the beginning of September so is usually 6 weeks long.
Interesting. Is it a regional thing? I went to school near Portsmouth in Hampshire. Public education. My recollection is 3 weeks, because our family would head out on a camping holiday the second we got out, and I'd return to school the day after we got back. Also, we weren't released until 4:30 pm each day. It was an incredible (good) shock moving to the US. Suddenly summer vacation was 3 full months and school was released at 2:30 pm. It felt like an all year vacation.