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Man, I learn a lot on this thread- including the quote and the other posts about this. Yes, we're in Texas too and I haven't even seen a schedule for next year yet. LOL I don't even know what day school starts around here.mickeymo said:In a desperate attempt to forstall cleaning I did a bit of research...ANYTHING is better than cleaning...
The Texas Legislature approved 2007-2008 school start date as the 4th Monday in August - no waivers. (August 27, 2007) - 2 weeks later than the current start date...
The end date will depend where there is more political, tourism, parent, and/or educator pressure
-End in May: cutting vacation and teacher institute days - which would lengthen summer vacation which would lead to less student learning retention, less opportunity for teacher continuing ed etc...etc...
or keeping the school year vacation and institute days pushing the end date into June - sticking with the traditional 10 weeks of summer vacation. Less opportunity for loss of learning retention - less time spent on review, etc...etc...
OK really do need to get something accomplished...besides wishing and dreaming for a do-over cruise
ETALaura, Great minds think alike!!!
I know how they've been handling the "starting later" thing though- because the last 2yrs they haven't had the waivers to start early and they have just about voided all breaks that they used to have (hence the reason we had to postpone our previously planned first cruise for Feb 2005 because they took away that week break they used to have there!) Now they started having only Christmas break and all other breaks weren't a week- they were only like a long weekend... like a Friday/Monday off. Sometimes Friday/Mon/Tues instead of a complete week (like for spring break, Feb break completely gone). If they start even LATER in Aug- I have no idea where they'll cut days even more but I'm not keen on the school year ending mid June and such. Summer already feels so short. I remember in my day (yeah, I'm old but not THAT old) in this same area we had THREE months off for summer. We ended at the end of May and started early Sept. We had breaks too- so they have to be just allotting more days for school than they did in my day. LOL
Why exactly are they messing with the start date? It was bad enough starting early Aug (ending end of May) but now they are pushing back the start date making the ending date later? Why oh why? I don't get why they are doing that. I'd rather start earlier than end later.
Gretchen is a total chicken... she is even afraid of the neighbor's FAKE black cat that they put on their lawn at Halloween. She is petrified of other dogs... but actually gave Molly a "You're OK" sniff in the parking lot... I was really surprised!!!!
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