How long are the summer school holidays in your country?

Generally in the US, schools close for the year in June and re-open in September, although there are some minor differences depending on where you live. Here, the kids just got out of school last week and will be out of school for the next two months. Summer vacation is the high point of a kid's life. I remember summers as seemingly endless days of sunshine, friends, adventures and fun. I remember tumbling out of bed, rushing out in the morning to find my friends and barely returning before dinner. A trip to the beach was always fun but there was something magical even about having whole days with no schedule, being totally carefree. I think the time off is good for kids. It's a time that they can be kids, without time restrictions. They learn social structure and how to negotiate when they are with groups of friends and deciding what to do all day. They get exercise, fresh air and sunshine and they don't have to worry about getting dirty. I think that a child with no summer break is more likely to get frustrated and fed up with school. Hey, we all need some down time for our brains.

Here in the Philippines, the summer break is 2 months. It is from April to 1st week of June. It's very hot at that time. As for my experience, when the school days are near I find my summer break too short and wished it could have been longer. I am just too lazy to go to school.:) Others here finds the break too long and wants to go to school as soon as possible. That is because they want to have allowance(money) as for their parents don't give them when there are no classes.:)

here in China we have about two months summer holiday. but nowadays the children cannot enjoy summer holiday as we used to do. they have to attend various kinds of make-up classes so that they can do well in their study. though sometimes they do not want to do it, their parents make them do it so that the children can be enrolled by key universities.

Well buddy i am in India presently studying B.tech- E.C.E. I have just completed my second semester and i am in for a vacation and i am having holidays for 2 entire months and i have almost completed 1 and a half months of it and just a small portion left and my college starts by 14th of July. Home sweet home will be gone. I have to start my third semester there. Keep smiling. Take care.

13 weeks is a pretty long time... Schools in India don't give long vacations as it is in Greece.. The vacations continued normally for 1 month and not more than that.It may be shorter in some parts.. And the kids also get burdened by loads of Holiday home works.It is a tricky situation.

today is the first day of school in singapore for the primary school , my daughter need to go school today after a long holiday for a month , she don't feel like going to school because she play for the whole month , she wake up late everyday for the holiday and need to wake up early today at 5:30am and she was not quite use to it anymore

Our summer holiday is only 8 weeks.My children tend a school that has a kinda year round schedule. We have classes that are 96 mins long. So school is kinda long here. My children never want summer vacation.