Jennifer22206

My classroom doesn't have AC!! Anyone who complains about having it is really lucky.

We go back on the 25th. And I have highschoolers.

Normacharlie

Same here in TN tho the state has decreed to start moving the date up starting next year. It's nice to get out in May but the kids really don't get much time for summer and sometimes it's hard for the parents to plan vacations.

Normacharlie

Bless your heart! I keep 3 little girls just on Saturday most weeks ages 2 to almost 7, sometimes 5, the oldest two are worse! I'm ready for them to go home when the time comes!

Lavada

my grandaughter is 6 be in first grade starts aug18 i am going to miss her during the day bless all the teachers and i had some of the best thanks to all of you teachers

bobbie1

I appreciate you all too!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Pam B

I will try to explain as it is in our area in central IN....for very many years our statewide testing was in mid-Sept. Testing is so high-stakes that schools went to starting earlier and earlier in Aug. in order to get in that much needed review. Now testing has moved to spring but most schools have not changed.

I heard on the news this morning that one of the larger districts in the Indpls area went back today. They are going on a year-round balanced calendar that is something like 9 weeks in school 2 weeks off and then maybe a month in the summer. Later this week and next week many of the other school districts in central IN are going back. One comment I read over and over is that we are no longer an agricultural based society so our calendars do not need to reflect that.

There has been a push each fall by somebody to get the legislature to mandate an after-Labor Day starting date for all schools. This poses problems as well...for one thing, the date for Labor Day is different each year. On the years that it is late (like the 6th or 7th) it would be well into June when school is scheduled to dismiss for the summer. What happens if there are several snow days to make up in June? It is conceivable that school could last almost the entire month of June.

Another issue that we have to deal with at my school (and I imagine others deal with, as well)...Little League baseball and softball start earlier and earlier each year now that we have gone to Daylight Saving Time in early March! From that point on we are struggling with families who do not understand that school needs to come first and are allowing their children to stay up way too late at night. And, to be very honest with you, the days we are in school past Memorial Day are pretty much wasted days. All the little ones can think about is getting home to play in the pool or ride bikes.

Actually, the real solution would be a late Aug (like about the 25tth-28th) start and shortening up Xmas vacation so that we could still be out by about Memorial Day. But, I am guessing that since most schools in our area are air-conditioned now...we will probably end up on a year-round calendar before too long (I have read where our esteemed state supt of ed wants to add days to the magic 180 we have now). There are both pros and cons to year-round school. Personally, I will retire if that happens. I turned 55 in July and am now eligible for early-retirement. I still like teaching my kdg kids but the day will come....

Sorry my post is so long. Just wanted to explain to those who maybe have always wondered about school calendars!

grammysharon

My GD starts kindergarten this year and I am tired as can be after having just her all day!! Thank you for what you do! Hugs!!! :-D :-D :-D

mpeters1200

My kids go back in 1 week and 2 days. This has probably been the worst summer ever, not just for my family, but my quilting as well. I haven't dug out my machine in weeks....bad quilter!

I tend to get a lot more work done from August to June anyway, so I'll need to be picking up again once the kids are back in school. I have a lot of table runner to crank out before January!

Greenheron

Bless you from a retired kindergarten teacher. The first six weeks each year always felt similar to the six weeks after childbirth--anticipation, struggle, joy, exhilaration, bonding and utter exhaustion.

It's still fun to pop in a dvd of Kindergarten Cop and play and re-play the scene with Arnold Schartzenegger collapsing after his first day teaching kindergarten: "They're horrible. They're like little terrorists." :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

liese

Ours come back Sept 6th! I teach 8th grade -- almost 400 of them a year!!!