Back to school....

[JLTraveling]

I'm going back to school myself this year, for a Master's in Animal Science and Behavior. Classes start Aug 11, the same day that public schools around here are back in session. Our back-to-school sales tax holiday runs the entire month of August. I'm excited for classes to start!

 

[JayMass]

It's so odd how much variety there is in when school years start and end across the US! I teach in Boston and we never start until after Labor Day. But that also means we don't end the year until the third or fourth week of June depending on snow days.

 

[barkley]

spoke with my bff who lives in northern california-she and the other staff were back taking care of stuff/meetings last week-kiddos start back TOMORROW (they've been off since start of June). I don't know quite how they squeeze in the minimum number of days/hours when-

all legal holidays off
18 minimum days
6 additional full weeks off during the school year (2 in October, 2 in December, 2 in March).

school days have shrunk allot since I attended 'in the old days'-

the kids attend (k-6) for 6 hours and 10 minutes per day but when you subtract out 30 minutes for lunch/30 minutes for 2 recesses (for the kids in k-3rd, half that for 4th-6th) that leaves what? 5'ish full hours of instructional time? I recall that in elementary (k-6th) we did 8 am-3 pm w/ an hour between lunch and recess (Jr high and High School were 7:50-3:10 with 15 minutes less 'off' b/c no afternoon break).

 

[Simba's Mom]

It's so odd how much variety there is in when school years start and end across the US! I teach in Boston and we never start until after Labor Day. But that also means we don't end the year until the third or fourth week of June depending on snow days.

Boy, did our sons learn the hard way about the variety in when the school year starts and ends. We moved from the Boston area, where the kids got out near the end of June, down to Texas, where the kids go back to school in early-mid August. So the summer of their move, their summer school vacation was all of 6 1/2 weeks long.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

That was definitely a strange transition for me too!

It's a shame that your wife's school added prep time but then added more meetings to eat into it.

It's also weird for us here in Mass to be thinking about back to school at all. - We only just got out in the back half of June! Staff goes back the last week of August, but the kids not until September.

Only some schools in MA get to still go back in September. I really miss the days of going back after Labor Day. I’m a teacher and start Aug. 25. Kids start the 27th. I know it’s just a week but it’s still summer to me.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Only some schools in MA get to still go back in September. I really miss the days of going back after Labor Day. I’m a teacher and start Aug. 25. Kids start the 27th. I know it’s just a week but it’s still summer to me.

I get it! Our school district actually tried that for a couple of years and went back