This provides great information to us neophytes! How about Parents’ Weekend: 2-5 September, other than the parade the morning of 3 September what goes on then? Do you get to spend any time with your DD/DS?
Half of them are spent at sea enjoying the deep blue ocean
There are breaks for the federal holidays with slightly longer breaks at thanksgiving and Christmas. Many go home, some spend the time at a friends house, etc
If I recall, Christmas is the only time that the school is closed other than summer. Plebe and First Class year, I flew all the way out west to home. The other years I was sailing. . . did that for quite a few years AFTER school, too.