megapixel

One of MY PET PEEVES:
Excessive Vacation Days.
So finally at the end of the long long long summer the school year starts. (assuming all the kids in Lakewood have been placed in a school)
The next thing you know, Yomim Tovim. Okay, I am not suggesting that the kids have school on Yomtov, or even Erev Yomtov, although a half day for the boys cant hurt. But EREV EREV yomtov, NO school? What is that all about? and now I was just informed that the boys are coming home WEDNESDAY at 12:00!!!
HELLO???? Why? Do they think that the kids will help prepare for yomtov? Please, take a stressful and busy time and throw in a few bored boys. That is a recipe for disaster! Now instead of cooking, cleaning and stuff, I will be breaking up fights and entertaining them (could we go to chuck e. cheese?) Not to mention working parents, who dont get off two and a half days before Sukkos. Who is watching the kids? Even the babysitters dont want to work! Assuming the kids are young enough for a babysitter Try complaing to the school they'll tell you:
1-"School is not a babysitting service". HEllo? I have to work all these days to pay YOUR BIG TUITION BILLS so the least you can do is consider me when you plan your schedule. If I am constantly taking days off to watch the kids, I am either going to lose my job or just going to come home with less money and will not be able to pay up.
. and 2-"the rebbeim and morahs need time off to prepare for yom tov"
Well GUESS WHAT, I DONT CARE!!! They just had 12 weeks off in the summer!!Other people have been working all the way thru the summer, and juggling daycamps and off days and inbetween days and post camp days. many a working mother has had to put in extra time later on to make up for hours and days taken off because school was cancelled on a whim.
and Morahs only work till 12:00, and rebbeim only till 2:00. People who work in offices work till 5:00. They dont even get home 12:00 on a fast day. they manage to figure out when they are going to put up their succahs, and shop. Surely the rebbe who gets home from work at 2:00 can figure it out as well. Other working people work up till and including erev yomtov as well as chol hamoed and ISRU CHAG. A parent who has to work on Isru Chag is really stuck when the kids are home that extra day. Why dont the schools realize this?
AND DONT TELL ME THAT THING - you know the one-"you should be glad to spend time with your little darlings." I Love them dearly, but they are happiest when they have their routine. Lots of days with no structure makes them crazy. and I am not the entertainment committee. I have stuff to do, which does not take a day off because the school decided to give a day off.
A playgroup Morah was once reminding me about an upcoming Chanukah vacation. For 3 year olds? they need a vacation from playing? "Well you know the morahs need a vacation" Hah! you just had 3 weeks off for succos about 1 month ago and a few weeks before that you were off for 12 weeks! and you only work till 2:00 I thought to myself but of course did not say it out loud because i did not want to imply that they have an easy job. they dont like that.
I dont know about other places, but in Lakewood of all places, there should be more consideration for working mothers. Lakewood was built on working mothers after all.