Mid- Winter break should be longer for students and staff
Mid- winter break should be longer
February 17, 2022
Mid winter break is coming up meaning everyone is excited and ready to finally relax after being stressed with school and with the new semester. Students will finally get time to relax, but not as long as they want to.
Recently our school district has shortened the mid winter break making it a shorter time for students to relax, go on vacation, and even clear their head. “We have to be at school for a certain amount of days.” explained Mr. Smiley West Middle School principal. “So instead of having us end on June 20th, or shorten winter break, we just shortened the mid winter break.”
Vivian Smith, West 7th grader said, “Students usually use breaks to clear their minds and get a break off the stressful times school can give you…”
After telling Vivian about how our school district shortened the break, she went on and said, “Well it kind of goes along with what I have been saying, students use breaks to refresh, shortening it is just gives kids less time to relax.”
Arguer • Feb 17, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Yes, this is one side of the argument. Many student would like to have a Midwinter break, but they don’t want to start school before Labor Day. Some of my friends in other districts, get out of school on the same day as us, but they start school earlier, and they have a Midwinter break. This year, we don’t have school on Friday or Monday, but school would have been more in likely canceled due to the weather, but it was a Professional Development day, meaning no students in the building, and Monday would be automatically a day off because it is Presidents Day, which is a federally declared day, in which students don’t have school.