Is it just me? What is with this school year?

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Anonymous wrote:Back in the day you started after Labor Day and finished before Memorial Day

What day? I’m 48 and I always started in August and finished in June. Did you ever have 180 school days in a school year with a schedule like that?

I'm 42 and that was close to your schedule. We'd start the week before Labor Day and go to the Friday before Memorial Day. We never had school after Memorial Day.

I have some family who still lives in that school district and this is still their schedule.

They do not do a fall break, Thanksgiving is just 2 days off, 2 weeks for Christmas, and 1 week for spring break. Summer is 12 weeks long.

I personally prefer the DC/east coast approach of going much later, shorter summer, but more breaks throughout the year. I especially appreciate the fall break and the February break, because it's really nice to have vacation time that is not linked to a family holiday but also not during a peak travel time. Having to squeeze all school year family travel into Christmas/New Years and spring break is miserable. And while I remember enjoying how long and lazy my summer was as a kid, I also remember getting bored and very antsy by August. 8 weeks is more than enough.

+1

I wish summer was shorter and there were more one- or two-week breaks spread evenly throughout the year. I don't love the random days off and long weekends, but if there were longer breaks built in, I'm sure camps and the like would adjust and kids could still do that stuff without the summer learning loss and it would be better at preventing burnout.

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Anonymous wrote:But if we ended the school year two weeks earlier, the teachers would just stop teaching two weeks before that. It would be a vicious cycle.

I don’t think so. I think it’s LATE. It’s WARM. We are DONE.

Nah. My friends in other states where school ends in late May felt the same way in mid May. They were "DONE" too. Its mental, it doesn't have anything to do with the numeric date on the calendar. College students feel "DONE" in mid April.

+1 Sister is a teacher in a large public school in Texas. School ended May 26th and she was so over it by then. It's just one of those things we tend to feel towards the end of the year.