Obviously it's different in each country, but mostly yes.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 05/01/2014 10:05:42 AM
View original postThis is just a quick question for those in the UK and various Western European countries like Germany, France, et al. Do your primary and secondary education systems take a summer break from June to the beginning of September like the American school system does? It seems like an outdated practice here in the States and I was wondering if other systems have the same practice. If so, why does your applicable country practice a summer break? If it does not practice a summer break, does the American method seem strange or does it make sense to you?
In here (Belgium) the summer break is all of July and August, and in college also most of September. In other countries it's similar - in the Netherlands they've got a system with different parts of the country starting and ending their holidays at different times so as to avoid situations like in France where the highways are completely swamped the first weekend of August and you get those 200 km traffic jams.
But here too you hear some experts say that even those two months are too long for kids and they forget too much in that time, I guess the American ones have that problem even more then.
School Summer Break in the UK and Western Europe
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Perversely, in the South, school often starts as early as August 1 
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Obviously it's different in each country, but mostly yes.
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Why is it outdated? Stop blathering nonsense
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