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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 3370001" data-attributes="member: 5868">Sadly, this isn't universal in the US.  I learned attending a private college, where the only holiday we had was Thanksgiving (Christmas, New Year's, and Independence Day typically fell during between-quarter breaks).  Made me happy to go work for the federal government.  Even better in the military, where we tend to add "training holidays" to the federal holidays, to turn all the three-day weekends into four-day weekends.  Of course, now I'm in an assignment where we aren't on a training schedule and therefore don't get training holidays.Growing up in California, our school system didn't take Columbus Day off, but did take a holiday around Easter (though it wasn't tied to a specific Easter-season holiday).  I suspect most local school systems have their own quirks ... add snow days for northern states.I'm in the ammo business now, and our two prime contractors take week-to-two-week breaks around Independence Day and Christmas-New Year's.  It's the only time they can shut all the lines down to maintain the machinery.</blockquote>