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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It’s rare to have two Fridays in a row where the kids go to school. That certainly wasn’t the case when I was a student. So something has changed.
A couple of my daughter’s high school final exams are scheduled during class time for other courses this year. So she’s going to have to miss those classes to writer her finals. She also has had to take one of her options over the lunch hour this semester because the class was oversubscribed. Which means she has missed a bunch of clubs and lunch hour activities.
There seem to be forces at play in making school schedules more challenging and complicated than they were the past. I’d be curious to learn what exactly those forces are.
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Being from BC, I'm not super familiar with Alberta education, but looking at a calendar and it looks like Calgary's school years are longer, but have a similar number of instructional days and hours as BC. So Calgary has 16 non-instructional days a year, but BC only has 7 normally. But most of BC has 2-week spring breaks and classes never start until after Labour Day.
Seems like a weird choice to make. You'd think a more compact school year would be more convenient for everyone, as opposed to a longer year with random Fridays off.