School Holidays/Days Off

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I have off for the Jewish holidays, but I see by the activity here, some of you are at work.

What holidays does your school honor?

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Specializes in School nursing.

We do not get the Jewish holidays off; very, very few Jewish students at my school. The only religious holiday (expect Christmas, if you consider it religious) we get off is Good Friday.

We do get the federal holidays: Labor Day (since we always start before it), Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day (part of Feb vacation in the Northeast), Memorial Day, New Year's Day. Oh, the day after Thanksgiving, which isn't a federal holiday.

In MA, we also get Patriot's Day (part of April vacation week and the day of the Boston Marathon) and the students get a day called Evacuation Day, which is always March 17 or closet business day to it. Staff has a professional day, but I joke the reason that is a holiday 'round MA is because that is St. Patty's Day ;).

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We do not get the Jewish holidays off; very, very few Jewish students at my school. The only religious holiday (expect Christmas, if you consider it religious) we get off is Good Friday.

We do get the federal holidays: Labor Day (since we always start before it), Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day (part of Feb vacation in the Northeast), Memorial Day, New Year's Day. Oh, the day after Thanksgiving, which isn't a federal holiday.

This is pretty similar to our holiday schedule except we don't have a February vacation (is that like spring break? We have that in March/April) and we also get the day before Thanksgiving.

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We get the Labor Day. Jewish holidays, Columbus Day, Election Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving and the day after (1/2 day before) Christmas break, MLK day, Feb, break (includes President's day) Spring Break (usually between Passover and Easter- if it dos not include Good Friday or "Easter Monday" we get those off as well, Memorial Day.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

I'm in a Christian (Baptist) school so we don't get Jewish holidays.

We get out on:

Labor Day

Fall Break (4 day weekend in October)

Thanksgiving (1 full week in Nov)

Christmas & New Yr Holiday (Dec 21-Jan 4)

MLK Jr

Winter Break (1 full week in Feb)

Good Friday

Spring Break (1 full week in April)

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Specializes in Community Health/School Nursing.

Labor Day

Thanksgiving break (called Fall Break at my school now)

Christmas/New Year break (now called Winter break to be politically correct at my school)

MLK Day

President's Day

Good Friday followed by Spring Break

Memorial Day (if we are still in session, it varies each year)

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Specializes in kids.

OK we get

Labor Day

Columbus Day

Veterans DAy

Wed Thurs Fri of Thanksgiving week

Dec 24-Jan 4 Listed as Christmas

Last week of Feb We do not take Presidents Day as Mass is on vacation that week

Spring Break Last week of April

Memorial Day

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Everyone here gets Jewish holidays except for my school (we are tiny, no jewish students). We get:

Labor Day

Columbus Day

Veteran's Day

Wed, Thurs, Fri of Thanksgiving week

Christmas & New Yr Holiday (Dec 21-Jan 4)

MLK Jr

Winter Break (1 full week in Feb)

Good Friday

Spring Break (1 full week in April)

Memorial Day

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Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health Nurse.

I'm not a School District Employee, I'm a PHN for the City, so it works a little different. Most of the City and school holidays line up (breaks are a little more complicated). If there is a City holiday we close the health center no matter what, if it's a school holiday we can choose to stay open to the students, only open for admin work (no students), or have the time off with no pay or use vacation.

School holidays are:

Labor Day

Veteran's Day

Thanksgiving Week

Winter Holiday

MLK

Lincoln's Birthday

President's Day

Spring Break

Malcolm X's Birthday

Memorial Day

My Holidays:

Includes all of the above except the full Thanksgiving/Winter/Spring breaks. If we are closed during those times I use vacation time and/or work at the City's Public Health Clinic.

Indigenous People's Day (aka Columbus Day) (School is in session, but we are closed)

Day after Thanksgiving

4th of July

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Specializes in School Nursing.

We don't get Jewish holidays, we get the normal federal holidays, the Weds before and Friday after Thanksgiving, two weeks at Christmas, a week in March and late May-early August for summer. We also get a random "fall" holiday" on the 23rd of this month.

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Specializes in kids.

Hands down, my favorite day off is the day before Thanksgiving. That was negotiated a long time ago and we do another day either in the beginning or in June, cannot remember which. Wednesday before Turkey Day travel (especially the Mass Turnpike is HORRIBLE) So to be able to take off at 2:30 on Tues is just fabulous, or to have an extra day of prep is equally amazing!!

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

We get:

Labor Day

Columbus Day weekend off (usually the Fr, Sa, Su, Mo off around Oct 10)

Veterans Day (which is a Wednesday this year so we get a random day off in the middle of the week- weird!)

Thanksgiving from Wednesday (yes!) to Sunday.

"Holiday Break"- 10-14 days off around Christmas

MLK Day

February Break which is 1 week off in the middle of Feb which usually coincides with the week of President's Day. This is a regional thing- we never had Feb break when I went to high school in the midwest.

Spring Break (one week) which is in April.

Memorial Day

Our scheduled last day is June 14.

No Jewish Holidays off for us!

We have lots of workshop days where kids don't come to school, but we do (I'm on a teacher's contract, so I work when they do.).

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