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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also I teach primarily 10th graders, the 11th and especially 12 graders at our school attendance is horrific. [/quote]

Same. I think this is true across all income levels because I’m at a title 1 school but many here are posting about their higher SES schools. Parents do not make kids come. It’s way too comfortable for kids to stay home - think about when we were kids. If you stayed home, tv sucked, you had nobody talk to. They stay home and have streaming, tiktok, and can snap their friends all day. The students also on the whole care less about academics and about thinks like sports, for which they would need to be in school. This is true just comparing my students now to my pre Covid students: they generally are much, much less motivated or driven by almost anything, and have zero sense of school community.

Anyway, it’s bad. [/quote]

We had 5 day school weeks and got out for summer vacation by Memorial Day.

Our kids have a pathetic mishmash of 3 and 4 day weeks, random half days, and are stuck in school almost until July.

Apples and oranges.[/quote]

What are you talking about? I grew up in the 80s and we started school in August and ended in June. Maybe `1-2 weeks less school than they have now. You need to calm down.[/quote]

NP. I grew up in another area. We started in late August and ended in May. DH says that growing up in the northeast that he started school after labor day and ended before Memorial day every yera. [/quote]

Sorry, but he is definitely misremembering. I am from CT, my DH is from NY, and our family is from NJ and MA. We always started the Monday after Labor Day and went well into June. Usually around the 21st. My NJ family still has that calendar.[/quote]

Most of the country starts mid August and ends by Memorial Day.

That really is the best calendar.

Going to school in June a full month after testing is completely pointless and a waste of time.[/quote]

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