<p>Is there anyone else there around the world that isn't on vacation right now? It doesn't seem like it reading the threads.
Only have a week left though, but it's particularly annoying as about half the schools here have finished now, even my brothers finish a few days before.
Do you guys still have to work in the last few weeks? Every other year we stopped working properly about three weeks before we broke up, but this year we're still working hard in every lesson. Just hoping we don't get too much holiday homework!</p>
<p>haha. the US just has ridiculously long summer vacations. it actually gets boring sometimes IMO. I’ld rather have more vacations through out the year, but I think I’m the only one.</p>
<p>Vacations are good~! You’re not the only one lol.</p>
<p>Rather get over the entire 180 days of pure school, then have a LONNNNG vacation. </p>
<p>Sounds insane, but I go visiting my relatives and the only reason why I can’t stay long is because how short summer vaca is 
so i like loooooooong summers :)</p>
<p>We only get 6 weeks, which kind of sucks, but I’d prefer that to getting less holidays elsewhere in the year</p>
<p>That’s really short :o!</p>
<p>I know someone who was exempted from her final exams, so she finished school by the end of May. And then she went to Northwestern, which doesn’t start until September 20th. She had a LONG summer vacation.</p>
<p>why was she exempt?</p>
<p>In 10th and 12th grade here you have major external exams finishing sometime in june. If you’re then going on to uni term generally doesn’t start until October. So looking forward to next summer!</p>
<p>Haha you’re ending in a week and I’m starting in a week.</p>
<p>uni vacations are SO LONG in the UK. my cousin got out of school in May and started again in September.</p>
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In our school district, seniors can be exempted from final exams with an A and 5 or less absences, a B and 3 or less absences, or a C and no absences.</p>
<p>Exempt seniors can still take the exam if they wish, and it will only count if it raises their grade. Personally, I was absent from some classes more than others, so of the 5 exams I had, I was exempt from 2 of them.</p>
<p>I’d rather have a 2-3 week summer vacation with shorter school days, like instead of 8:00-3:00 it should be like 9:00-1:00</p>
<p>9 AM to 1 PM… that would be so nice</p>
<p>If you had that short a day the teachers would just expect you to do so much more work at home. I like having decent holiday anyway, it gives you time to try things out, go on holiday and just relax a bit.</p>
<p>3 more days for me!!!</p>