Gotta read this! "Public Education" is babysitting and days off??!!-----I would rather my child be in school.

This school year, K–8 students are scheduled for complete five-day school weeks just over half of all weeks; for high-school students, 22 of 44 school weeks will be incomplete. - Audrey Goodson Kingo

• The snow has played a part, but the bigger culprits are religious and cultural holidays, as well as staff-development days. 
• There are 16 total, plus winter recess (eight weekdays including Christmas), 
• midwinter recess (five weekdays) and 
• spring break (seven weekdays, including Good Friday and part of Passover). 
• Five of the holidays have been added to the calendar in just the last decade...
• There are also two half-days for parent-teacher conferences.

Each closure poses a logistical and financial challenge for parents as they scramble to find babysitters, tap their paid time off, ask their bosses for leniency, or enroll their kids in day camps. 

At Hex&Co., a board-game café in Morningside Heights, a full day of holiday camp costs $170. At Private Picassos, an art studio in Clinton Hill, it’s $175. A day of camp at the Queens zoo is $150...

• The seeds for today’s holiday-heavy school calendar were sown by the city’s fast-growing Muslim and AAPI communities, which argued that a Judeo-Christian calendar isn’t reflective of a place where nearly one in five students identify as Asian American and an estimated 1 million New Yorkers practice Islam...