“Like why should the calendar matter so much? But it was always charged because it gets directly to people’s work schedule, family schedule, children’s schedule - which is deeply personal to people. “When I first experienced that, it surprised me,” he said. The passion over school calendars is long-standing, said Mark Slavkin, who served on the school board from 1989 to 1997. Unified has generally been an outlier the vast majority of school systems have a two-week break.
Parents with more resources would adjust, she added. “So, sometimes,” Goldberg said, “it isn’t the majority that gets to win.” There were some parks stuff for the first two weeks because all the schools were out, but I didn’t know what to do with my kids’” the third week. She said she thought of “the parents last winter who said to me: ‘I don’t know what to do with my kids a third week. For others, the extra week brings on child-care hassles, potential learning loss and an extended period without pay for low-wage, hourly school workers. And in L.A., parents are still complaining about the mid-August start time, when the weather is the hottest and many families want to extend summer activities and travel.įor some, the three-week winter pause has provided an opportunity to recharge and spend time with family. Educators in several states, including Michigan and Florida, have explored year-round calendars with shorter but strategically spread out breaks to maximize learning.
The calendar debate is not limited to Los Angeles or to the length and timing of breaks. Students would have the same number of school days without losing so much learning momentum.īut the school board’s recent decision to alter winter break and all it affects - the rhythm of lives and coveted time off - has provoked outrage and legal action, and also highlighted the important question of when children should be in school, how effectively time is used and how much say parents and teachers should have over it. The proposal seemed simple: Change the length of winter vacation in Los Angeles public schools from three weeks to two.
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