How many days off will students from private schools have during these festivities?

In a campus in the north of Guayaquil, classes will be until December 21. The students will take a break for the Christmas and New Year festivities.

That school started classes before the fiscal establishments and has an “advanced” calendar that goes at a different pace.

Unlike fiscal establishments, there are private schools that, having started the school period earlier and managing their own schedules, will have a little more days off on these holidays.

In the treasury, the free will be on Monday, December 26 and Monday, January 2. But there are individuals who will take a break for more days, since they start the holiday from December 21 or 22 and return on January 3.

For the year 2022, the national government, within the calendar of holidays, ordered that Sunday, December 25, be passed to Monday the 26th, just as January 1, 2023, is passed to January 2.

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According to the Ministry of Education, municipal, trustee and private educational institutions prepare their own school schedules in accordance with what is stated in article 146 of the General Regulations of the Organic Law on Intercultural Education.

This section indicates that the school year must be developed in a school regime of two five-month periods in all educational institutions (…), and must have a minimum duration of two hundred days of compulsory student attendance to fulfill activities educational, counted from the first day of classes until the end of the exams of the second five-month period.

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However, private, fiscal and municipal educational institutions may voluntarily avail themselves of the detailed school schedule for the fiscal educational system. (YO)