year-round calendar?

[mamaley]

i'm interested in a charter school for ds that goes to school year round. for those of you who have experience with this, what do you think of it?

[3girls1boy]

I don't have experience with a year round calendar, but I know that the schools which call themselves "year round" in my school district have a six week summer break and several 3 week breaks throughout the year. Most run some sort of day care during the 3 week breaks. I would imagine if they didn't this schedule would actually be harder for a lot of parents, especially those who work full time, because they would always be scrambling for some kind of child care arrangements.

My kids have to get up early during the school year and go to bed early, so they only are able to do one extracurricular thing during the school year. I appreciate the long break because we don't have to be on that strict schedule and also it gives them a chance to do a sport or other recreation that they wouldn't have time to do during the school year.

[hjohnson]

I went year round for two years in High School and I enjoyed it. We were on the A track which meant we had six weeks off during the summer and 8 weeks off during the winter. We had only 2 days of Spring Break and still followed the Federal Holidays.