 Re: School holidays
In Italy, it differs a bit from school to school, but in general in Lombardy this year, school started on Sept 11 and goes on to June 9 - that means about 12 weeks off in the summer. That may sound a lot, but by mid June it is so hot here that it's impossible to work properly (schools are not air-conditioned!).
However Christmas and Easter are shorter than in many other countries - this year it was two weeks at Christmas but Easter is only from 4-11 April - and there are no mid term breaks other than public holidays. All in all it's 200-209 (the region establishes a minimum and maximum) days at school, so that's 156-165 off including Sundays. Take away 52 Sundays and that's 104-113 days holiday, minus any public holidays like May 1st etc which fall on Sundays (in Italy you lose them if they fall on a day that would normally be a working day). So potentially considerably less holidays than France. Don't tell my son, or he'll want to move ... But perhaps in France the schools do more hours each day? Again it differs from school to school - some do longer hours but don't work on Saturdays for example -but in general school will start between 8 and 8.30 and finish about 1.30. |