Yeah pretty much. I don't get what's wrong with that (does it normally end at a different time for other schools?).
every other school that I have EVER heard of ends the 2nd quarter and 1st semester in December, before Christmas break. After xmas break starts the 3rd quarter.
it's the only logical way to do it. How can you remember your 2nd quarter stuff if you take a 2-3 week break?
for some gay reason our biology teacher gave us a quiz the first day we got back, about what we went over about the last week and a half before xmas: highest score was 60% (me and 2 others)