Reply To: Why are Yeshiva bein hazmanim so long?

iacisrmma- I am glad to hear that your son takes his learning seriously and maintains his regular learning schedule even when on official vacation. That still circles back to the original question-why make it vacation then? The question really comes down to this- do we take learning in Yeshiva as seriously as someone working at a job? If your son was working as an accountant in EY and he wanted to save up his earnings for a well-deserved vacation and go to the US for Yom Tov, would it be normal for him to say to his employer “I hope you don’t mind but I am taking off a month from work to see my family”. What do you think would be the reaction of his employer? Let’s say he also took off a solid three weeks for Yom tov just 6 months before that and three straight weeks in the summer. Don’t you think his boss would start to question his work ethic? If his boss would be cool with that kind of schedule, I would love to work for that company! If we do not approach a yeshiva zman with the same seriousness as a job then we need to question how much we really value the learning that goes on in Yeshiva. Everyone needs some level of vacation. However even the hardest working professionals generally do not take vacations longer than about a week and a half (two max).
You can lament your situation all you want- what is the right thing to do?