NJGIRL;2437312 wrote: Almost every person I know that is in college right now has a fall break in October.
:ditto: But, like I mentioned earlier, I think it's really a southern thing because down here many of the high schools and elementary schools (along with most colleges) have fall breaks, but most of the schools start the first week of August, too.
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A lot of private schools/prep schools and colleges have that fall break, too. My kids are home from college on fall break this week, headed back for classes to start on Wednesday. A lot of the Northeast public schools have a mini break around Veteran's Day, and not just NJ, though "Jersey Week" became the popular term.
Sherri
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Last year I retired from a school dist in Arizona and moved to the east coast. We had 3-2 week breaks during the school year. Spring break in march, 2 weeks in October around Columbus day and 2 weeks at Christmas. This meant that summer was only 6 1/2 weeks long. This was great at first until everyone started going to Disneyland during October. It was only a 6 hour drive away so why not. Then the parks were as crowded as summer. These days I keep hearing about schools having fall break and believe that this is adding to the crowds in October at WDW. Thank goodness I am retired now and can go in September or November. :mickey:
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yankeesfan123;2437309 wrote: What college gets this fall break you're talking about?!?! I'm clearly going to the wrong schools...
My son is a senior at Xavier and he had a two day break last week.
That is why we choose last week to go instead of our usual last week in Ocotber.
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VWL Mom;2437342 wrote: I have one in NJ and one in NY and they don't have a fall break either. :(
Some schools (my son has a friend at Scranton) that have gone to trimesters and get a fall break.
Maybe it's a northeast thing.. No October breaks for us... :(
My kids went back to school on Aug. 14.
We have an upcoming Fall Break scheduled from Oct. 24-29 (Friday, Monday and Tuesday). This year the break coincides with Parent/Teacher conference (Friday) and also teacher in-service dates (Monday and Tuesday). These "fall breaks" started here a few years ago. I know some schools in the area did already have their fall break (last week maybe).
We also get a full week off for Thanksgiving, two full weeks and an extra day (teacher in-service) off for Christmas. Then they get a full week (plus the Friday before) off for Mardi Gras. And Good Friday and the entire week off for Easter. Sure seems like an awful lot of time off!
Denise
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NJGIRL;2437305 wrote: I believe for the most part fall break (different than thanksgiving break) is something college kids have not high school or elementary schools.
Not based on what we saw last week - there were tons of kids (grade school through high school) every day all week.
In the airport on Monday we saw many kids spread out doing homework.
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11/19 Copper Creek Villas
5/17 - Boardwalk Villas & Swan
10/14 Legacy Villas
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