We have -- just barely -- survived the three-week winter break that is mandatory in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Dear LAUSD school board, what are you thinking? A three-week winter break? REALLY?
My friends with kids in other school districts gasp in amazement. Not one of them can believe it when they hear about it.
Taking kids out of their routine and plunging them into the hands of their exhausted working parents, NOT ONE OF WHOM HAS THREE WEEKS OFF over Christmas, is friggin' nuts.
Here's what happened around here. Late Blooming Mom and Dad enrolled our kids in winter break camp, which while not outrageously expensive, is still an added strain on the family budget. Winter camp was held the week before Christmas at a school that's not far, but still isn't our home school, necessitating our kindergarteners getting used to a new campus ("Where's the bathroom, mommy?"). Luckily, our workplaces were closed Christmas Eve day and New Year's Eve day, so we didn't have to pay for childcare on those days. But there was no camp the week between Christmas and New Year's. What, exactly, are working parents supposed to do?
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