Fun Weekend Poll

[PollyannaMom]

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How many kids do you guess will actually go to school on the 20th?

 

[fla4fun]

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How many kids do you guess will actually go to school on the 20th?

I selected “it depends” because I think it will depend on what kind of summer childcare parents have arranged and for what dates. I would hope this info has been part of the school calendar since the school year began and they aren’t surprising parents at the last minute. If it has been known from the start, parents may only have a half day of childcare arranged, so their kids would have to go to school.

 

[leebee]

I selected “it depends” because I think it will depend on what kind of summer childcare parents have arranged and for what dates. I would hope this info has been part of the school calendar since the school year began and they aren’t surprising parents at the last minute. If it has been known from the start, parents may only have a half day of childcare arranged, so their kids would have to go to school.

BINGO! You hit the nail on the head. School here got out on Friday. Last day was supposed to be the 20th but the superintendent petitioned the state to not do the last few make-up days and the state agreed. We had about 2 weeks' notice that school was ending early. Now, we are a multigenerational household with 4 adults working full-time and a first (now second!) grader, and it's been a scramble to find child care and such. Most programs around here aren't starting until the 24th. Those extra days of needing to find child care at the last minute are a real pain. MY guess is that if school is open, parents who have to work will be sending their kids.

 

[willowsnn3]

Schools here get out last week of May so, none.

 

[ronandannette]

My kid LOVED school when he was little and never wanted to miss days. The last day of the year usually included some sort of "special" something, so for sure he would have been there.

 

[Micca]

I voted 50%-ish. It's def a throwaway school day, but isn't the last day of school always like that?

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I am guessing, but I voted the 75% plus. Attendance would be VERY poor, but it would also depend on grade level. I would think that the lowest grades would have the highest attendance due to parents' work schedules etc... The parents would be sending the kids to school because it might be one more day of having somebody supervise them.

I would also think that kids that are old enough to be home alone for the day, the attendance would decline quite a bit. However, if they had "fun" stuff planned at school that day, (assuming kids are still as nerdy as I was at that age), most of them would voluntarily show up for school.

High school level kids would have the poorest attendance. It is going to be tough to motivate them to even get out of bed. However, if they had fun stuff planned, I bet more of them would show up than you might think.

 

[slo]

I voted 50%.
It’s already getting late into June, so a lot of families may be wanting to leave on vacation.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I voted All or Almost All based on where I grew up, but It Depends based on where we live now.

First off, where we live now...we've been out since late May. DD17 graduated on May 25th. Their district allows kids to exempt finals in a number of situations, so it's also not uncommon for underclassmen to be out a lot as well towards the end. Underclassmen had finals the week after graduation, but DD15 exempted a bunch or took some in class the week before, so I think she had two on Monday, May 27th and was done.

Where I grew up, they are still in school this week. I don't know if it's like it was when I was there, but nobody missed the end of school. Finals went up until the day before the last day and there were zero exemptions. I looked at their calendar last night and it looked similar to the structure over 30 years ago. Senior prom, I think, was on Friday...which is wild to me since DD17 had hers on April 20th. In any event, today is likely senior skip day, but it was always normal to attend last day of school. They used to require it for you to be consider complete and release grades, GPAs, rankings, etc.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I voted 50%.
It’s already getting late into June, so a lot of families may be wanting to leave on vacation.

That was one of my thoughts as well.

I also remember a couple my DS's high school teachers admitting to the kids that they didn't really expect them on the last half-day (and that was without a holiday separating it from the last full day.)

 

[AppleDumpling]

I would say it depends, but think most would probably go. The school year here in NY has always ended in late June. Last official day is June 26 (first day was Sept 5), and the last three days are half days for elementary. Used to be, the last day was when final report cards were given out and you found out which teacher you’d have the next year. Not sure they do that anymore.

Moving up ceremonies for ES and MS are a few days before the end, and HS graduation is this Friday 6/21. However, underclassmen are taking state exams this week and they run through 6/25. I think we have more holidays than other regions, Juneteenth being the newest one.

 

[CGB]

Ouch! Someone should have done some planning ahead or swapped some days on the calendar to prevent that from happening. For our middle & high school, that would have been hard because we do final exams on the last days.

 

[barkley]

They used to require it for you to be consider complete and release grades, GPAs, rankings, etc.

when i went to high school they ensured the seniors attended the last day by giving out empty diploma holders at graduation (except for those that owed for books not turned in-they got one with a bill in it ). if you wanted your diploma you had to show up and get it. when my kids graduated, the seniors were technicaly done about 2 full weeks prior to the last day of the school year-they took their finals a week earlier than any other high school students (so they could determine who was/was not graduating), had a couple of days off, came in for a graduation rehearsal, had another couple of days off and then did graduation on saturday-then they were entirely done BUT the remainder of the school continued for everyone else for another week-week and a half.

 

[barkley]

Ouch! Someone should have done some planning ahead or swapped some days on the calendar to prevent that from happening. For our middle & high school, that would have been hard because we do final exams on the last days.

are the teachers under huge pressure to immediatly grade the senior's finals to determine graduation status? i ask b/c a retired high school counselor friend lobbied endlessly (unsuccesfully) with his co-workers to get finals pushed back from this type of schedule. he says it's terrible for a kid/family to literaly find out the day of graduation that their student is being pulled from the ceremony due to a failed final

 

[CGB]

are the teachers under huge pressure to immediatly grade the senior's finals to determine graduation status? i ask b/c a retired high school counselor friend lobbied endlessly (unsuccesfully) with his co-workers to get finals pushed back from this type of schedule. he says it's terrible for a kid/family to literaly find out the day of graduation that their student is being pulled from the ceremony due to a failed final

Our graduation is scheduled about two weeks before school is actually out. The seniors' last day is usually about five days before the actual graduation ceremony. So, they have some time to work with the seniors who are close or need a lifeline.