This morning at church, I was talking with Mrs. F. She had been DS1's fourth grade teacher. We were in pain realizing that school starts for us in a month. Hers starts sooner. They have a teacher's meeting on the 8th and public school starts the 13th. Meetings to tell her what she has to do in the year. All the information she has to sweeze into her day wheither the kids understand it or not. I commented that one day the schools will be going year long instead of 180 days. Mrs F. agreed and said she was glad that she will be retired by that time.
The 13th?!?!? I couldn't believe it. Still can't believe it as I write this. Two years, ago public school started the last full week of August, it did when I was in school too. Yet it seems to be creeping earlier and earlier into the summer. What happened to the two full months off from school? The two months we as kids played outside (yes outside, not in front of the tv or computer) from the time the sun came up til it was dark. Those summers your parents had to call you in for bath and bed. You were so tired you crashed and somehow had the energy to started it all over again the next day. The good ole days. The days where you were expected to be a kid. To play.
Yet, nagging in the back of my head, a little voice is telling me that I have a month to go too. Aug. 18th is when I plan on starting our school year. Do I have my schedule written down? Do I have all the books/curriculum we need? Do we have enough school supplies? Almost, no, and yes. Looks to me I need to have a back to school meeting with myself. Get things lined out. Plan some fun some my kids can still be kids even when we are in the middle of school. Yeah. That's the ticket. Fun while we learn. Oh yeah, they call it homeschooling. Glad we decided to do that. Let our kids be kids while they learn to be adults and upstanding citizens, what a concept.
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Wow that does seem early for reg public schools. Our public schools still start the Wed after labor day and go until nearly the end of June.. but our Charter schools start in the middle of August around the 19th or so and go until the end of June.
Public schools here get out before or right after Memorial Day. Just depends on when they start the school year and if they have snow makeup days to add back in.
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