Several years ago, some Wal-Mart stores in China set up a children's camp for summer and winter school breaks.
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Especially during the winter months where school ends and there is little daylight left for outdoor play.
John Deasy, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, said the new calendar lets students wrap up finals before the three-week winter break and gives high-school students more time to complete college applications.
Officials in Plano, Texas, for example, banned Christmassy colours from a school's winter party.
In New Hampshire, Dartmouth College student Evan Diamond and other members of the ski team were getting ready for races at the Ivy League school's winter carnival.
Quynh Do, who graduated from Yale University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in English, had intended to go to medical school until the winter of her senior year, when she decided instead to pursue a career in book publishing.
At the University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Business, administrators this winter visited with more than 20 multinational companies in China, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
In Chicago, more than a third of the district's 675 schools opened Aug. 13, part of a year-round schooling effort that spreads out the school calendar with shorter summer and winter breaks.
It draws on earlier research from Save the Children which detailed the effects of poverty on UK children's wellbeing, with parents cutting back on food (61%), skipping meals (26%), not replacing children's outgrown shoes (19%) and winter coats (14%), missing school trips (19%) and having to borrow to make ends meet (80%).
And he missed part of school when they returned to Mexico each winter.
Some schools in Powys, mid Wales, may have to close if education chiefs decide to implement winter crisis measures, sending teachers to their nearest school.
When Randy McDuff, one of the Warren Buffetts Next Door, vacationed in Cancun this winter he walked past a K-6 elementary school advertising classes in Spanish, English, and Mandarin and it got him wondering why Mandarin?
"The main reasons we decided to come here this winter was so that our eldest daughter could go to school and our youngest daughter could socialize with other kids her own age, " Brossier said.
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The Thursday stop required some scheduling changes at the school, which had yet to fully return from a winter holiday.
Winter Storm Nemo, which has already caused hundreds of flight cancellations and numerous school closures, did little to dampen the mood on Wall Street though.
At that pace, back to school spending is the second biggest consumer spending event for retailers behind the winter holidays.
Back-to-school shopping is the second-biggest annual spending event, right behind the winter holidays.
In the winter of 2007, Professor Howard Stevenson died of a cardiac arrest steps from his Harvard Business School (HBS) office.
The prospect of pupils being sent home from school because of a lack of staff had threatened to embarrass to the government this winter.
Some 19% of children in poverty said they had missed out on school trips and 14% said they did not have a warm coat to wear in the winter.
High, of course, is when the kids are out of school and the weather is great, or summer, while low is during the depths of winter, when fewer people are traveling, with the exception of the holidays.
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