Northern students advocate for an extended spring break
As winter ends closely followed by the start of of spring, many anticipate the arrival of spring break. It provides people with a much needed break and time to hang out with their family members or go on vacation. But the one issue that arises is that there is not nearly enough time for kids to be out of school.
The issue of not having enough days can really affect students, as some people like to go on on cruises or go to the beach, but students can not possibly have a fun spring break in a weeks time. Most of these cruises take a week at the very least, making it next to impossible for anyone to go on one of these trips and making it back to school in a timely manner. Another thing students can do over break, is work more hours on their respective jobs than they usually can during the school day. With only having a weeks worth of time to get some hours, students can not make as much money and find themselves not being able to maximize their free time as they would like. Spring Break is supposed to provide you with time that you would not usually have during a school week, but that is not the case.
What also does not make sense is that spring break is not the same length as winter break. Winter break is on every school year calendar at least nine to ten days without interruption in school year schedule. Because of that, there should be no real reason to not have spring break the same length. Even if you say it takes up more days in the school year, there are multiple ways of getting around it. Such as taking early release days and making them full school days or by extending the school year by about three days or so to account for the time. Because of this there should be no excuse in why the district can not work around the length of our spring break.