ErickaRamirez:
But the vacation lengt is almost the same here. The only difference is that here they start August 1 and in south Florida the start almost at the end of that month and I think winter break is longer here because they had almost three weeks and there is only two weeks
Right. In K-12 they want to shorten the time off in the summer and spread the time off throughout the year. It's part of a move toward making the kids go all year around. They aren't actually getting any more time off.
But what they are doing is screwing the teachers over. Lots of teachers had summer jobs to supplement their paltry teaching salary -- cause they don't get paid in the summer. But with the short summer, it's harder to do. Also, they want teachers to go to school for continuing education credits, but again, the short summer break makes it harder for them to take a college summer quarter class.