Ginger

Other than the week immediatley before and the week after Easter, I'm interested in other dates children get breaks from school in the winter time. Thanks for your replies.

Missy

Most American kids get 3rd week in February off. Canadian kids and college kids have 2nd or 3rd week off in March.

Mom

My kids, public school, Northern CA get off the week of Feb. 18th and April 22nd. Are you trying to avoid them???? Hope this helps.

newjerseymom

My kids have off ONLY week after Easter(plus the Friday before). But......we are going to Hawaii for 10 days..wheeeeeeeee............can't wait. They will miss 1 day school but we are going to Waikiki 3 nights and Big Island 6 nights--all FREE on FF points and hotel points---is the winter over yet?????????????

gail

When we have travelled, we have met up with lots of people whose kids have President's Day week off in February. The April week seems to vary. In Massachusetts we have a unique holiday on the third Monday of April (Patriot's Day) and that is the second week. However, we have found more and more schools are closing for just a mid-March vacation and giving long weekends around President's Day and Easter. If you want to avoid kids (we have kids and also want to avoid them), try late Feb/early March or last week in April or first week in May. After that colleges get out.

Ginger

Thanks folks for the replies. The information is helpful. I am hoping to do a cruise around the Hawaiian Islands and am looking at the first or second week in March. As the boat isn't large, I would like to avoid the extra "energy" that youngsters have, especially when they're away from school, but I'm also hoping to catch whale watching.

Jim Rosenberg

I'm not sure there is any real consistency to "spring break" in the U.S., the way one might see in some other countries. Around our area, it tends to fall in the third or fourth week of March. But a few years back when we saw what was happening with fares, parking and crowds at our local airport, we decided we didn't really care to plan our entire lives around the school calendar -- so long as our travels didn't take our kids out of classes for an unreasonable amount of time during the course of the school year. Of course, as experienced travelers in their own right today, they are not be the kind of young people that would disturb anyone's vacation anyway. I can understand how some people feel about trying to avoid the "high energy" crowd and it would seem to make some sense on a boat like you describe. On the other hand, I've enjoyed the many opportunties to stay in touch with what young people are about, including several spring breaks where MTV was doing their shooting. A little tolerance toward age diversity can be a good thing for both sides of the equation, I think.

Ginger

Thanks for the answers and Jim, I tolerate age diversity on a near-daily basis and do just fine. Kids are fun,but not this time!

curious

I hate to break this to you Ginger but our kids, as well as many schools that I know, have always had the second week of March off. That is our only vacation other than the week between Christmas and New Years. We always travel that week (have done 2 cruises then) and my kids were happy to find so many others with the same vacation as they had. If you want to really avoid kids, I'd say go during the last 3 weeks of January. After Christmas break nearly all kids are back in school. I've never heard of a school vacation at that time.

Beachbum

Hi Ginger,
I agree with Curious. The last three weeks of January is your best bet. All the systems I'm aware of take the last week of March, though some are beginning to change to mid-March. I'd opt for either late January, or hold off until late April, early May.

S

Right now, my children are in school from 15 August thru the Friday before Christmas. They're out for a 2 week Christmas break, then break again for a week at the end of March. They have the same other Holidays the rest of us do - Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans day, Thanksgiving, MLKing's birthday, and President's day. Starting that early, our school system completes a semester at the Christmas Break. We're out before Memorial Day.

The next county over is experimenting with a modified year-round school. They started on 1 August. After each 9 week grading period, they will have a 2 week break.

Ginger, if you really want to find the times when the fewest children are out of school, check out the Disney websites to find out when their slowest dates are.

Jeanne

Just want to echo what others have said about NO uniformity. I am an elementary school teacher in Kentucky. In my school district, we have had spring break the same time for the last 15 years, always the second week of April, sometimes this coinsides with Easter, sometimes it doesn't, we don't have Easter break. We begin school mid August and get out mid to late May (depending on if we miss for snow). There is no fall break and we get 2 weeks at Christmas. My daughter attends high school in the next county over, they are moving toward year round school and begin first of August, get 2 weeks off last week of Sept. and first week of October 3 week christmas and 2 weeks end of april. My other daughter in ollege gets 5 WEEKS off at Christams and doesn't start back until the 3rd week of January. Her spring break is in Marchand always coinsides with the NCAA basketball tournament (go figure, she goes to UK, basketball heaven!)

Paige

Our kids have Spring Break the second or third week of March each year. No break for Easter or in April.

If you really want to avoid kids, the first week of May is probably your best bet.

x

Good Friday and the following week.
The Thursday & Friday before Presidents day.

Is March too late for the wales in Hawaii? I think it may be on the edge of the "window".