have the schools (k-12) started in your area yet?

[pstokely]

they started in Florida & Georgia last week, some don't start until Sept 8

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. The kids started school where I am this past Wednesday , August 11 ,

But our governor , Gov. Mike Easley (D) signed a bill into law that public schools are not to begin school no earlier than August 25 - starting for the 2005 - 2006 school year . But something tells me that some group somewhere is going to try to fight it .

[pstokely]

6. who

amusement park industry lobbists have gotten some states to mandate that schools not start before a certain date

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. Yeah but I know that Paramount's Carowinds can't be all that exciting lol

[Sporadicus]

2. School Started LAST MONDAY, AUGUST 2, in My Locality!

The date just keeps creeping back from one year to the next.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. Do you have any year round schools in your area ?

Oh goodness , you are in the 700 Club . Whatever you do , do not drink the Kool-Aid .

[Sporadicus]

5. No Year-Round Schools in My Area

it's just that the start date keeps getting pushed back earlier each year without letting out any earlier. Granted, fall break is two full weeks this year, but I venture that kids and vacationing families would rather have a longer summer vacation than get extra time off in early October.

As far as the Kool Aid goes...I just say no ;-)

[SheilaT]

10. Two week fall break?

Start date gets pushed back and not letting out earlier? Sounds like you have year round schools already.

Several years back I was on a spring break trip with my boys, and on the train from Williams, AZ to the Grand Canyon, got chatting with a woman who taught school somewhere in Texas. They'd gone to year round school where she was, and she just loved it. Liked the breaks scattered through the year, found the kids didn't lose anything by not having the long summer break, so in the end they could learn more. I also believe it made it easier to deal with kids who would otherwise flunk a whole grade.

The problem is, we have the shortest school year of any industrialized nation, and a school year that is still geared largely to the needs of family farms. It's really about time our schools left the 19th Century behind.

[Sporadicus]

14. We're Approaching Year-Round School, For Sure

I can see both sides of the argument, but I still believe kids need summer vacation from school so they can just be kids.

[metis]

3. Sept 7th

Winnipeg.
School year ends the last day of June.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

8. Two of my nieces started JULY 30TH!!!!

Stealing childhood. Period. :grr:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

9. My sympathies to your nieces .

No wonder so many kids are already burned out by the time they get to high school .

[pstokely]

12. is it year round?

?

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

16. Nope.

They get one week off in October (fall break), one in April (spring break), two for Christmas (holiday break), and then the months of June and July (summer "vacation").

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. Yowza! you guys go back early!!

Up here in NJ the kids don't go back until after Labor Day...it's always been that way around here

I know if I was a kid and I had to go back to school in late July, early August, I would organize a rebellion! I hope that these schools have AC!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

13. Majority of the schools in my city have NO A/C ...

and thats the thing that I don't understand . They start school earlier than usual , sending kids into schools which have no A/C ; therefore they have half-school days due to the heat , some of there days they might have to make up during the warmer months . Even then , the same schools will not have A/C .

[Reverend_Smitty]

15. That is such a dumb system...

when I was a kid, I took my summer vacation *very* seriously, so I'd be pissed off.