School holidays are too long

We have had 3 half days in a row now for parent conferences and tomorrow is an off day, then all of next week there is no school too. I don't remember getting all these days off when I was a child in school. Plus we also have 2 weeks at Christmas, then another 2 weeks for Spring break. That stretches the school year well into June. I think it would be better to have a shorter school year since so little gets done at the end, no matter when it comes along.