Last Day of School

[tarcone]

This is it. The final day of the school year. It has been a long year with this crop of 6th graders, and i'm glad its over. Now on to summer. No work, wife working summer school. I get to be Mr. Mom for 4 weeks.
Thank goodness it is over!!!!!!!

[Bonegavel]

End of school year in May? My god man, when does it start? July?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

End of school year in May? My god man, when does it start? July?

I imagine their calendar looks a lot like the one's here in Georgia. Virtually everybody is out sometime in May (we're May 24th), with start date of early to mid-August.

There was a brief attempt last year to address this in the state legislature but it wasn't able to gain traction. Apparently the "school as free day care" crowd had a better lobby than the "WTF can't this wait until the day after Labor Day like we did" group.

[stevew]

Man, I have to walk a quarter mile to the Bus Stop to pick up my daughter for at least 2 more weeks. I'll be happy when this school year is over. Especially with all the rain of late.

[panerd]

Originally Posted by tarcone

This is it. The final day of the school year. It has been a long year with this crop of 6th graders, and i'm glad its over. Now on to summer. No work, wife working summer school. I get to be Mr. Mom for 4 weeks.
Thank goodness it is over!!!!!!!

I have one more week here in Rockwood. First I find out you are from right down I-44 and now a 6th grade teacher. What district do you work for?

[Huckleberry]

Most of the schools around here moved the start and end of school earlier in the year in order to complete the fall semester before Christmas break.

When it started just after Labor Day then the last two weeks of the first semester were the first two weeks back from the break. The theory was that success on end of term tests would be improved and students wouldn't have to study during their family vacation.

So we start in mid-August and end in mid-May. That way they get the 90 days in before Christmas. Texas requires 180 classroom days per school year.

[panerd]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I imagine their calendar looks a lot like the one's here in Georgia. Virtually everybody is out sometime in May (we're May 24th), with start date of early to mid-August.

There was a brief attempt last year to address this in the state legislature but it wasn't able to gain traction. Apparently the "school as free day care" crowd had a better lobby than the "WTF can't this wait until the day after Labor Day like we did" group.

Yeah my school starts August 10th next year! I guess it would next to impossible to switch to a September start all in one year, but we seem to slide 1 or 2 days at a time closer to July. I really wish we would go to the 2-3 weeks off every couple months system and dump the 10 months in a row one. As a teacher I can see the acedemic loss of the kids from so much time off in the summer and also the personal boredom I have around August with almost unbearable stretches in February and March during the school year.

[Raiders Army]

Well, we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Makin' all that noise
'Cause they found new toys
Well, we can't salute ya
Can't find a flag
If that don't suit ya
That's a drag

School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks

Well, we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes

School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks
Out for summer
Out 'til fall
We might not go back at all

School's out forever
School's out for summer
School's out with fever
School's out completely

[MJ4H]

Last day of school here, too. I need time away from my band right now, badly, so this is well-timed. Next year should be great, so no worries.

[tarcone]

Originally Posted by panerd

I have one more week here in Rockwood. First I find out you are from right down I-44 and now a 6th grade teacher. What district do you work for?

Wow, you are right next door. I teach in the Meramec Valley School District.

We start August 16th and end in mid May. Usually around this time if we have no snow days

[Scoobz0202]

3 more days of school and then high school is over. I don't want to graduate...

[oliegirl]

Gwinnett County gets out next Wednesday, and goes back August 14th. This is actually a week later than usual, and next year school will get out a week later than usual...people were complaining about going back the first week in August. Last year Fulton got the extra week in summer and this year it's our turn

[stevew]

They start pretty late in PA, as in around the last week of August. It would be nice if they would start a bit earlier, and give the kids either an earlier finish, or longer breaks. I think a lot of it has to do with the historical end of the growing season, as to why they start so late.

[ScottVib]

24 more school days.

June 22nd is the last day here. (started Aug 31st last year)

[stevew]

Originally Posted by ScottVib

24 more school days.

June 22nd is the last day here. (started Aug 31st last year)

Wow, that blows.

[JS19]

I am so amazed reading about people starting school that early in August. Unless it's been changed since I graduated a few yrs ago, we started in September.

[RPI-Fan]

It's a North/South thing for the most part. I think the "growing season" comment it dead on.

[Craptacular]

Wisconsin actually passed a law a few years ago that made schools start after Labor Day because of the frickin' TOURIST season. A bunch of businesses complained that they lost their staff for the Labor Day weekend, and paid enough legislators to get it passed. It's great to see school district decisions being made by the tourism industry.