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Originally Posted by Wormius
Do you think any of what he described are worthwhile perks? First assuming the kids and parent are even at the same school, this perk is useful only until the kids are old enough to stay home by themselves. So it’s not like 12 years of saving money on daycare.
Having the same holiday schedule aligned to the most expensive travel seasons aren’t a perk either. After the kids have completed school, there isn’t even a benefit to having that time off. What are you going to do for 2 months? Take a seasonal job?
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What a strange take.
Of course having holidays align with the kid's schedule is a huge perk. Regardless of whether they're old enough to stay at home, there is still the advantage of, you know, doing stuff with your kids... Are you telling us that you did / are planning to just leave your kids at home alone all summer? Not take them on trips, camping, activities or anything else that involves the parent spending time with them / not working?
As far as travel schedules and expensive travel seasons, the only alternative is to pull kids out of school... But even then, travel prices don't revolve around the CBE schedule, so there are very few genuinely cheap times to travel and they tend to be cheap for reasons other than not aligning with CBE holidays... If anything, this is still a perk because parent and child schedules align and the teacher doesn't have to compete with coworkers for time off to coincide with the kid's holiday schedule.
And yeah, regardless of having children at home, having the summer off is lame...
