L's school does the end of Jan - and then they have a "semester break" the last few days of January. It's a mixed bag - I can't imagine her work load being moved up - all that she's doing now *plus* finals. OTOH, it does take some of the relaxation out of December break, knowing that finals and end-of-semester work is still ahead.
This is the first year that the kids will NOT take their exams before Christmas Break :( They changed our school schedual this year and started us a week later.
Here,DS's finals are end of January. DD, in university, is in the midst of exams. She has had 2 already and has 4 more to go. One is on Friday, 2 on Saturday and the last one Tuesday.
Thankfully the year ds15 started HS, they switched the calendar so they'd finish finals right before the holidays, so his are next Tues-Fri (which, of course, he's dreading, but then is looking forward to the time off afterwards/between semesters). To me this makes the most sense; it used to be that they'd go back about 1.5 weeks before finals in January. I'm glad he missed that.
ETA - same as momdragonfly - ds is bombarded with end of semester work; had 2 tests and 2 quizzes Tuesday, a comprehensive vocab test yesterday, a German standardized test today to see how they fare with other German 3 classes in the US...and finals in all 7 subjects next week.
DS finals are the third week of January. They used to be the week before the holiday break - I loved that, getting to totally relax during your "break." I hated it when they changed the start of the school year, which led to exams being after the holidays. DS is going to miss the first three days of school in January because his chorus is going to London. I DREAD what he's going to have to do to make up that work and prepare for exams.
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Finals here are the 3rd week in January.
stacy
Sue, mom to Leah and Seth
This is the first year that the kids will NOT take their exams before Christmas Break :( They changed our school schedual this year and started us a week later.
We have semester finals right before Christmas break.
Thank heavens.
Here,DS's finals are end of January.
DD, in university, is in the midst of exams. She has had 2 already and has 4 more to go. One is on Friday, 2 on Saturday and the last one Tuesday.
Finals around here are the last week of school, before break!
Thankfully the year ds15 started HS, they switched the calendar so they'd finish finals right before the holidays, so his are next Tues-Fri (which, of course, he's dreading, but then is looking forward to the time off afterwards/between semesters). To me this makes the most sense; it used to be that they'd go back about 1.5 weeks before finals in January. I'm glad he missed that.
ETA - same as momdragonfly - ds is bombarded with end of semester work; had 2 tests and 2 quizzes Tuesday, a comprehensive vocab test yesterday, a German standardized test today to see how they fare with other German 3 classes in the US...and finals in all 7 subjects next week.
Sue
Edited 12/13/2007 7:55 am ET by suzyk2118
My dd's high
DS finals are the third week of January. They used to be the week before the holiday break - I loved that, getting to totally relax during your "break." I hated it when they changed the start of the school year, which led to exams being after the holidays. DS is going to miss the first three days of school in January because his chorus is going to London. I DREAD what he's going to have to do to make up that work and prepare for exams.
Lisa
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