Will they miss the day? The schools here don't get out for summer until late June because they take so many days off. They get "late start" every Monday. I don't think they go more than two or three weeks straight before having a teachers' workday, conference day or holiday. When I went to school back in Nebraska I got one day off, Good Friday, between Christmas break and end of the school year. I think some kids in Seattle get a Christmas break, a winter break and a spring break. This side of the mountains is not that bad, but not by much. I don't think it that hard to get out of school these days.