Christmas break over
Schaffhausen children are already back at school
The Swiss school children are still enjoying their Christmas holidays – except for those in Schaffhausen. Here they have already packed their school things after a week and are back in class.
While the Christmas holidays are still almost everywhere in Switzerland, classes have already started again for the Schaffhausen schoolchildren. (icon picture)
However, that’s not quite as bad as it seems at first glance: the Schaffhausen schoolchildren don’t miss out, because they benefit from a third week of vacation in the fall.
The reason for this lies in the tradition of viticulture, primarily in Klettgau, as the cantonal education department wrote on Wednesday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency. Depending on the degree of ripeness of the grapes, the municipalities used to be able to place a third holiday week before or after the two official autumn holiday weeks.
This was standardized around 30 years ago and three weeks of autumn holidays were defined for the canton. There is hardly any criticism of this tradition and there are no plans to change anything, according to the education department. Many families took the opportunity to go on vacation in the south before the cold season.
Another reason for the short Christmas holidays in Schaffhausen are the sports holidays. Because here they are scheduled at the earliest in the 5th and 6th week of the year. For the schoolchildren in Schaffhausen, the next holidays are almost within reach again.
(SDA)