opts for a shortened Easter vacation.The 2023-2024 school calendar indicates five periods of seven to eight weeks each. The year is currently in the fourth period, extending from March 11 to April 26, 2024. During this current period takes place the Easter weekend, March 31 and 1is april. As the school calendar does not indicate any Easter holidays, the Easter break should only last three days, Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, with a return to class on Tuesday April 2. However, as March 29, commemorating the events of 1947, falls this year on a Friday, and preceding the Easter weekend, it will thus be a four-day extended weekend, from March 29 to April 1. The students, having already benefited not long ago from a nine-day break, from March 2 to 10, between the third and fourth periods, they will thus only have the extended weekend four days to Easter instead of the approximately two-week Easter vacation to which students have become somewhat accustomed each year and around which family organizations are based.
Teachers, for their part, believe that breaks after a certain period of work without interruption are part of the educational elements necessary for students. The break at the beginning of March and the long Easter weekend, totaling almost two weeks, already represent a break responding to the need for a break among students. However, some private establishments opt for a few days of break at Easter. However, this is a shortened vacation compared to the traditional two-week Easter vacation to which students and parents were accustomed.
Hanitra R.