Does anyone live in a school district that gives a winter break in February?

We have that here in NY.
P.S.- Last check 20 degrees Fahrenheit at noon today. Blizzard on the Way.

Iiiii“m dreeeaaammmmming of a Whiiiiiite Christmas…

Well, since our winter lasts about 5 months, I’m not sure it really matters. There’s nothing worse, in my opinion, than getting away in February to good weather just to come home to a blizzardy mess which will continue for another couple of months (off and on).

We have a Feb break in the elementary/high schools (not colleges) and another one in April. That really chops up the second half of the school year. And since I’m in grad school, there’s no way of going anywhere in February… so I don’t really think it’s a great thing.

I think it might be better if all schools (including colleges and universities) followed a similar schedule, but I’d rather get away in April myself. I don’t want to come home to a snowstorm.

We get an extended weekend in February, but that’s all.

We got that in elementary and middle school, but not in high school. It was called “Ski Week”. And it was awesome.

@cupcake I feel just the opposite, I need to be warm for a week or two here and there during the winter or I feel like it is never ending and too depressing.

My son is in year round school, so he gets between 2 and 4 weeks off 4 times a year, February, May, August and November, in addition to a week or so at Christmas, so he goes to school the same number of days as kids who aren’t in year round school, but instead of having June, July and August off, he has most of August off, but 3 additional shorter breaks at 3 month intervals, it gives the education more continuity. They also keep the same teachers for 2 years in a row so he has the same 2nd grade teacher he had for 1st grade.

@JLeslie – I want to get away too… but I absolutely hate coming back and having another couple months of snow left!!

And since I don’t get a school break then, we can’t go out of town for Feb break anyway.

10–14 inches snow forecast for NY…

@Supacase Are you talking about Presidents Day weekend? Or an additional one to that in February?

@dalepetrie That sounds great.

@Cupcake For me part of it is money too. I can’t see paying to go to a tropical climate when the weather is already getting fabulous where I live, sometimes better. Places like Florida start to get crazy hot. When I lived in FL I did not feel the need to get away all of the time. But, I really don’t like the cold and probably suffer from SAD somewhat. I definitely have a vitamin D deficiency that I am trying to crrect with precription vitamins.

Plus, if everyone is Christmas and Spring breaking around the same time everything is more expensive, you get taken advantage of in some ways. I just looked up tickets to FL and it will cost me $188 is I fly out Jan 30, If I go mid February it is over $400. I’m not trying to convince you of anything, just telling what goes through my mind regarding the subject.

All schools in the UK get a mid-term break in February, in the term that runs from Christmas to Easter.

The Easter – Summer term gets a mid-term break in June, and the September – Christmas term gets a break in October.

Year-round schools in Northern California get Feb. off for one variant of a schedule you can chose.