Why do schools only offer a week off for spring and not Easter
2007-03-21 04:55:35 · 7 answers · asked by Summer C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
Because not everyone celebrates Easter.
2007-03-21 05:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by Dusie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here in New York City, the spring break is really dictated more by Passover than by Easter. Fortunately, Easter and Passover usually coincide. When they fall a month apart, the schools will usually give two days off--Good Friday and either Holy Thursday or Easter Monday--with the Passover spring break the following month.
Passover is the most important holiday to the Jews, with the possible exception of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in the early fall. Passover requires a special diet (no yeast), and, I believe, a total rest from all work except cooking. Therefore, I'm fine with the fact that the New York school systems--K-12 as well as the CUNY colleges--place a high priority on the Passover break.
Now where you live, the spring break may be earlier than Easter or Passover, because your school year begins in mid-August rather than late August or early September. Why not ask your Board of Education or your college officials why the spring break is so early?
2007-03-21 19:35:31 · answer #2 · answered by MNL_1221 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some places have a spring break much earlier than Easter, so it wouldn't make sense since there's no association. Ours was a whole month before Easter, because we live in a warm place and we want a spring break before it gets too hot to enjoy it.
2007-03-21 12:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some schools have a spring break two weeks before easter because they leave school earlier in june then most my school has a whole week off before easter so i can go to church on good friday
2007-03-21 13:01:50 · answer #4 · answered by ninekittys 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends where you live. Down south, the children have the week of Easter off. We call it Easter vacation.
2007-03-21 13:01:58 · answer #5 · answered by curious George 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are very intuitive.
Ans: Because the lawmaker like Pharisees want God out of the picture.
We are becoming a pagan nation and we are going to pay for it with the pandemic flu called H5N1 or something else.
(God may turn his back on us until we bow down before his existence.) I
f we don't believe we may find no help in solving the problems to our habitation of this planet. H5N1 is growing and probably will bring most our Nation to its knees. Polar caps are melting and causing erosion's of beaches, pollution of the oceans are changing food supplies and normal Violent volcanic actions may happen in America soon.
Time will tell if we believe in God and the need to rely on him when worldly thing go wrong.
2007-03-21 13:42:23 · answer #6 · answered by hot wheels 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one wants to drink and fornicate on or near a religious holiday
2007-03-21 12:04:39 · answer #7 · answered by Spring loaded horsie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋