And just like that… it’s been two weeks since my last post!
It’s that time of year, right? On the one hand, the lazy days of Summer have started. On the other, there’s so damn much going on I’m not sure where lazy fits in. Final projects, end of school parties, sleepovers, dance recitals and pre-K graduations, you catch my drift.
So yeah – school’s out! OK, wait. can we talk about this? Today is JUNE 01. The kids, at least the ones down here in the South, have already been out of school a week. The way the school year has changed is mind-boggling.
When I was a kid, we started school the week before Labor Day. I remember it well because the Catholic schools started before everyone else, who started the Tuesday after Labor Day. When you’re ten, starting five days before everyone else might as well be starting five weeks before everyone else. The point is, we started school when Summer was actually OVER.
We went to school until late December. Yeah, we got off for Thanksgiving, and probably an in-service day or two. We didn’t have Fall Break. We got two weeks off at Christmas, and went back a few days into January. We did get Spring Break, but there was no additional Winter Break (isn’t that what the two weeks in December are?!).
And then we always got out around June 10 (this was when it was fun to be at Catholic school because we did get out before everyone else!) at which point Summer was not yet brutally hot- but definitely pool-worthy.
Isn’t that what you all did? And isn’t that what still happens in the NorthEast?
I have no idea how over the years the calendar has morphed into what we have now.
Which is to start school the second week in August, and get out before Memorial Day. WHAT? No one ever seems to be able to explain the reasoning behind this bizarro calendar. For a while I thought maybe the powers that be were trying to trick us into that whole year-round calendar thing, but that trend seems to have just died (and honestly, I’m quite ok with that).
When I started this post, I didn’t really have a specific topic or point to prattle on about, I just wanted to post because I hadn’t in a while.
But now I’m super curious about school schedules in other parts of the country (clearly I’ve got the SouthEast and the NorthEast covered). So do tell. Comment on what it is like where you live. Even BETTER! Comment on why we have this start in August end in May nightmare here in the South.
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