Would you like to have school year starting after the Labor Day?

[Anonymous]

Considering that schools are more of a paid child care then really education facilities these days since they won't prepare your kid for
college but rather keept hem overly busy with things they don't need in life anyway then yes, long vacation would benefit everybody,
and country, more spending time, more travel.. more fun time events, why nobody think of it? Instead of stuffing schools with
to the brims we should have more time to enjoy life, virtually anything that is tought in school can be tought in fraction of the time
by homeschoolers so sombody is pulling out leg for shear teachers salaries benfit.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure exactly what pp is saying...

I personally wish school started after labor day. I think it's because I grew up in NY and we started the Thursday after Labor Day. It seems unnatural to start school in August. We did go well into the end of June, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like a summer vacation of about 6-7 weeks and then have the other time breaking up the school year - take 10 days at Thanksgiving, 2 weeks at Christmas, a week sometime off-season for travel, etc.

With the exception of your description of Thanksgiving, this is very close to how year-round schooling is done. I've seen it where kids start in mid July, finish at end of May, have about a month around Christmas. 6-8 weeks at summer. a couple of weeks in the spring. There is no summer slump. The parents love it.

Honestly, with MoCo's religious diversity, I don't see it ever happening.

I don't see how the religious diversity fits in here. Explain?

[Anonymous]

I prefer starting before labor day. No matter how much I try to get our act together the first week of school is rough on DH and I as we get our routines together. Summer is much more laid back. Camp is fun easy, no 5 million forms, busywork homework, we can be late, etc etc. I need the 3 day weekend to re-group and pull it back together. For families with a stay at home parent or families that are super organized I can see how starting after labor day would be better.


From a childcare perspective, yes year round school would be better. I really private school where it was OK to take kids out anytime. I would assume that if public went year round that there would be substantial flexibility to travel and take vacations.

The downside though would be that kids don't get to be kids. My kids love summer. They go to camp but we choose ones that fit their interests. In some ways they learn more at camp than at school. They finally get the physical activity that they crave. If public school was full year, the obesity epidemic would skyrocket again with kids.

[Anonymous]

So well being of a child and giving kids more relaxed time means little to most parents.. correct?

[Anonymous]

You ought to post a question on the VA school forums asking the pros and cons of starting after Labor day. I for one, live in VA and hate it. Our kids are in school until the end of June while everyone else is out. June is a nicer month than August. I'd rather have more June, less August.
Pro is you can travel to the beach in late August (NC) and get off season rates because they're all already back in school.

[Anonymous]

A pro would be going to the NC beaches off rate... and possibly with hurricanes. Ugh. I'd definitely roll the dice (to take an off-season rate vacation in August with the possibility of a hurricane) if it were really an option.

[Anonymous]

So well being of a child and giving kids more relaxed time means little to most parents.. correct?

Your logic is flawed. If kids start school later (in September), they get out later in the Spring (in late June). No one gets "more relaxed time". It's the same 180 days.