^ You have a great point about my own district. A friend of mine works at school here in our district, but her children attend school in a neighboring town. While start and end dates are pretty similar, she often has a conflict with spring or winter breaks being the week following or preceeding ours. So she often has to request time off the week before or after our break to have time with her kids. I am lucky that mine will correspond to my children's time off!