I remember always starting school around August 20.... and get out around the end of May. of course, that included at least a week of snow days, since I went to school in the Great White North (South Dakota!)
But I also remember school starting at 7:30am and ending at 3:20pm. Our local school (which my boys attend, duh!) starts at 7:45 (with classes actually starting at
and getting out at 2:45 for the past 2 years.
This year, the state changed some of this though. Public schools will start on August 20. They can then either cut out some holiday days, finish later in the Spring, or change school hours. So they did a combination. We start Monday at 7:45 like normal, but get out at 3:00pm. They took a couple of days out around Christmas break (now getting out on Dec 23 and returning Jan 7) and we will still get out of school at the end of May, but it will now be BEFORE the 3-day holiday instead of after it.
As others have stated, I don't see how this accounts for the "lost" days they said they were having by starting on the 20th instead of the 13th, but that's what they say and that's what we're doing.
