Even with the reduced break, many students and their families will be traveling to destinations such as Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, California, or Florida. Some might stay home or travel locally to visit family members. Some students may travel out of the country to Nassau in the Bahamas or Cancun.

Mrs. Jennifer Twiford, attendance office secretary said, “Most students plan their vacations way in advance, just in case. But even when [FCPS] takes away two days [like they did last year] it doesn’t matter to most of them. Some might tweak their schedules to leave two days earlier or stay two days later than they originally planned.”

The warmer weather excites students to think of summer, despite having days off, four-day weekends, snow days, and holidays.

With spring break, teens get a chance to have fun outside, or go to a beach resort for a little more than a week to just swim in the ocean, surf, scuba dive, fish, or kite surf.

According to officials in Florida, Panama City Beach is one of the famed locales. In a New York Times article, the Chief of Police Drew Whitman estimated that, “the population swells from a little more than 12,000 to 150,000, or 250,000 during the busiest periods between March 1st and April 15th;” official spring break season. According to The Wall Street Journal, the city’s businesses earn up to $101 million during March.

John Laurie has researched how much college and high school students usually spend in Florida. According to this research, “by the early 2000s, nearly 40 percent of college students travel en masse for spring break, spending ‘nearly $1 billion’ in Florida and Texas alone. Laurie also graphs sales taxes and hotel development taxes for various undergrad hotspots in Florida, Texas and Arizona.

Senior Nikolai Feldman is going to Hawaii for spring break. “I am aware that they took two days away. It doesn’t really affect my schedule before or during the break. Although after, I will have to make up all the work that I missed.”

If you wish, you can visit the poll and vote where you will be traveling for your spring break!