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Default What happened to summer vacations?

On 8/20/2012 9:25 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 8/20/12 12:18 PM, wrote:


We didn't get any Jewish holidays but it was expected that the Jewish
kids would be absent. There were only a few holidays and the Easter
and Christmas holidays. Now political correctness has made those
"spring break" and "pagan solstice celebration break" ;-)


We called it "spring break" way back then...but I do like "pagan
solstice celebration break." It has panache.


It also more accurately attributes it's origin.