I noticed this got brought up in the German news today....chatting on the evil nature of parents taking the kids two or three days prior to summer vacation periods, and leaving for their destination. It's reached some stage where teachers are talking about 'consequences' and cops are talking about fines (up to 1,500 Euro).
So the whole deal?
Every German state has a different schedule, and they are all aiming on concluding tests approximately two weeks prior to X-day (meaning a Friday), then on Monday....roughly five to six weeks will pass by with summer vacation.
Here's the thing, you find all kinds of vacation and airline deals for the week prior to X-day, and then everything goes to max-cost for that six week period.
Parents grasp all of this and try to remove their kid and leave on the Wed or Thur prior to the X-day. If they go through their regional airport, there's the possibility of cops being there.
What happens in that final two weeks of school? NOTHING. You can go and ask every single kid and they will tell you that this two week period is worthless. They go on outings, field-trips, or sport-days. There are NO tests in the final two weeks.....all of those are concluded already.
Getting the authorities or teachers to admit that they are wasting the two weeks? It'll never happen.
If you gaze over the newspapers.....a handful of cop confrontations will occur, and folks are standing at the airport with the kids and being told that the kid can't continue the trip unless you get 'permission'.
All of this is pushing the game a bit more where you make the decision to use the train or drive to some out-of-country airport to leave on your big trip. In a way, it's pretty silly, but it's the amount of rules that boggles the mind.
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