Have the schools (K-12) in your area start yet or soon?

[pstokely]

Do they have AC? Schools around here start in 2-3 weeks. A lot of them have AC.

[cynatnite]

1. August 6th...

Hard to believe they are starting so early this year. Yep, they've got AC.

[pstokely]

4. But do the buses have AC?

I doubt it, at least they didn't when I rode them regularly (nearly 10 years ago)

[cynatnite]

6. Actually, they do...

Most of the buses are less than four years old. I went up to my son's to talk to the bus driver. The cool air felt nice.

[unsavedtrash]

2. August 7th

yep, they have AC.

[Breeze54]

3. No way!! Sept. 5th!

Cripes!! School is sounding more like torture these days! Poor kids!

[Left Is Write]

31. School should start after Labor Day and end before Memorial Day.

Right? ;)

[pstokely]

38. I don't think that's possible unless they don't have many days off

[Left Is Write]

43. It was just one of those "good old days" things.

[Arkansas Granny]

50. That's the way it was when I started school. In fact, for the first

few years of grade school we only attended 8 months of school. Our first day of class was the day after Labor Day and we finished the school year in late April.

[pstokely]

51. You don't many days off, did you?

[Arkansas Granny]

55. First, you have to realize that this was back in the 50's. We had no

spring break and only a few days off for Christmas. Also, the roads had to be really bad (like impossible to drive on) before they called off classes due to weather. As I recall, we didn't go to a nine month school year until I was in the 4th or 5th grade. The school I attended was the proverbial one room school with 8 grades and one teacher and outhouses.

This is starting to sound like the old tales of walking to school 5 miles, barefoot in the snow and it was uphill both ways, isn't it?

[Kali]

5. the freaking 9th. OF AUGUST.

Every year it's earlier and they have more and more half days. :mad:

Thank god this is my last kid's last year!

[cynatnite]

7. Why do they keep moving them up earlier?

:shrug: Ours is the 6th of August.

[pstokely]

8. To have more days off during the year and end the 1st semester before the Holidays

Also they get in more days for standardized tests. What state you in?

[cynatnite]

10. TN

I should look at last year's schedule and compare it with this year's.

[Kali]

9. I am convinced it is to scam more federal money but then I tend to be

pretty cynical about the local schools.

[Scooter24]

11. August 27 for us.

And yes, all of the building have AC.

[dropkickpa]

12. August 30th

Go 2 day, have a 3-day weekend for labor day, then back again. Get out June 11th. They have a LOT more goofy inservice days than they did when I was a kid, which forces a longer school year. But still only 182 school days (state law requires 180), which is really dumb considering the number of snow days used last year, which was, IIRC, 4. The last 4 weeks of school were nothing but field trips and wastes of time.

[pstokely]

14. Field trips are nessarly wastes of time

[YellowRubberDuckie]

28. Field Trips to the wrong places are wastes of time...

IF you take the kids to the right places, they aren't. Kids learn hands on way better than they do by sitting in a class room taking notes. This has been proven again and again.
Duckie

[Left Is Write]

32. I agree. Good field trips are great learning sources.

Poorly planned field trips are wastes of time and money.

[pstokely]

37. Where do they go?

[pstokely]

52. What places do they go to?

[KitchenWitch]

13. Buses? What are buses?

School district I live in does not believe in them. They believe in making the parents take their kids to school.

I would PAY to have buses.

[pstokely]

15. How do carless families get their kids to school?

[KitchenWitch]

24. I don't know, but I am guessing - this is Irvine, CA, remember

that there are not many people here that have no car.

[Kajsa]

20. That's nuts! Shame on IUSD!

They have such a great rep as a school district
and they are not hurting for money.

How in the hell do the special needs students
get transportation?

By law, the school district needs to provide their
transportation.


:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

23. They have the small buses for the special needs children

But no buses for the rest of the population.

[KamaAina]

53. Ours believes in making middle and high school students take the city bus!

In a completely unrelated story :sarcasm; , my morning commute has all of a sudden imploded to the point where I am wishing for the relative peace and quiet of the NYC subways. :grr:

[AwakeAtLast]

16. August 17th

I go back to teach and my 5 y/o starts Kindergarten!!!!

:cry: Where did the time go? :cry: (Isn't that what everyone says?)

[Beausoir]

17. September 4. Tourism prevents it from starting sooner.

I like it that way.

[pstokely]

18. Don't you get out sometime in June

The districts that end early usually start early, the districts that end late usually start later

[Beausoir]

33. Usually end of May. Again, we live in a summer tourism area. June, July and August are sacred.

We end at Memorial Day and begin after Labor Day.

[Kajsa]

19. They start the first Tuesday after Labor Day.

This year that is September 4th.

Our schools get out in late June, usually the
end of the third week.

It's been that way for some time, now.

[Nikia]

21. I think that it is in September here in Wisconsin

I don't have children but I am not looking forward to school starting again. My house (and driveway) is on a street that gets lots of school traffic. My house is less than a mile away from work and I have to be there at 8:00 a.m. Sometimes, I have a hard time getting out of my driveway. Aside from that, there are also children who cut through our yard on the way to or from school.

[mvd]

22. They start August 29

They better have AC for the amount of property taxes here.

[ikojo]

25. I think some of the suburban schools begin in a couple of weeks...

I grew up in Springfield IL and we always started school about a week before Labor Day. The only part of my elementary school that had air conditioning (IF I am remembering correctly) was the mobile class room, which was basically a trailer made into a class room.

In the high school the only part with AC was called the "new" part of Lanphier, even though it had been built in the 70s and I was there in the 80s. I don't know if any other part of the high school has air conditioning now, I'll have to ask my nephew who is in the same school.

The schools around St Louis don't all have air conditioning...it greatly depends on which district. I think most, if not all, of the schools in the Parkway district have air conditioning. The schools in the city of St Louis are lacking in air conditioning but then those schools are lacking in accreditation at the moment.

I don't know how kids can be expected to learn when the temperatures exceed 90 degrees.

What I do recall from high school is that there would be very large fans in the windows and a fan up front where the teacher was. Not fun. I have always LOATHED summer.

[pstokely]

39. Pretty much the same with schools in the Kansas City area

A lot of old buildings in the KC school district lack central AC. I think most of the suburban districts have it now since many have done remodeling in the last few years.

[LaraMN]

26. We still have a month to go.

A month...
:freak:

[femmocrat]

27. Teachers go back Aug. 22. First day for students is Aug. 27. No AC.

We just sweat a lot! Ugh.

[AngryOldDem]

29. End of the month here

The schools my kids attend have AC. But it hasn't been until the past two years or so that the elementary school got AC. The building is 1950s vintage with a newer addition from the 1980s. The younger kids are in the '50s part of the building, and it used to be that area got hotter than hell because it did not have central AC, as the newer part did. Walking into the old part was just like walking into an oven. It wasn't uncommon for some kids to get sick from the heat. To add to it, the ceilings had fans, but they were so high the fans were almost useless.

My oldest daughter had a 2nd-grqde teacher who, for punishment, actually turned OFF the fans one day when it was extremely warm. I called the school board on that one.

But, thankfully, the whole building has AC now.

[Left Is Write]

30. We start the 27th.

[rainbow4321]

34. August 27th..first year of state mandated start dates (TX)

Up til this year anything was a go...one year our district started on 8/1. A couple years ago the state lawmakers gave into the state tourism industry lobbyists who saw the month of August as a time when they could collect more revenue. They asked that the late August start date be mandatory and they got it.

Prior to the immigration controversy headlines there were some lawmakers also saying that it would give migrant families a chance to get back into town--their kids were missing the first few weeks of school because their families didn't get back up here in time for the start of school.

After the nationwide immigration issue started, they quietly dropped using that reason and started pushing "Texas tourism will get more $$$$".

And yes, they have a/c :)

[pstokely]

40. I think they will have them next in MO

so families have an extra few weeks to visit Branson

http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=r&BillID=136

[CatholicEdHead]

35. Day after Labor Day, after the MN State Fair ends

[Elidor]

36. They started back last Tuesday!

When I was a youngin, we didn't go back to school until the middle of December! And then we only went for a week! We did another week after the New Year, and then we were off till December again! Kids these days have it hard.

[pstokely]

41. What state you in?

Does the school have AC?

[Elidor]

42. Tennessee

I hope the schools have AC, but if it's anything like my school days, half the AC units are out and the teachers have to open the windows to prevent outright suffocation. And our school budgets are pitiful, not just here, but across the nation.

[usaftmo]

44. August 3rd here

Why? It's hotter than Hades, preseason football hasn't even started yet (or the regular season or college football for that matter), and the baseball regular season is another 6-7 weeks away.

:wtf:

[pstokely]

45. Do the schools even have AC?

[usaftmo]

47. I want to say yes, but I don't know.

MS is the poorest out of all 50 States, and by looking around you'd think Katrina was here last week. I've been stationed in Biloxi for 1 year now and I've seen close to zero improvement/rebuilding...except for the casinos.
:eyes:

[Bjornsdotter]

46. Hey......

....what's with all of the AC questions?

Are you looking for customers or is it a fetish? :rofl:

Anywho....Cheers :toast:

[RebelOne]

48. Some counties in my area of North Georgia started school today.

I don't know about AC. But I know the traffic is going to be horrible again.

[RubyDuby in GA]

49. My county started July 27th

It must totally suck being a kid these days without a full summer off!

[LSK]

54. they used to start in late August when I went

And I remember it being hot for a few weeks in August and May. This was in the 80s and 90s in Chicagoland.