School starting

[Atlanta Z3]

Some counties here started school this week.  With no little ones in school I LOVE the traffic break in the summer - on a good day I can make it to work in 13 minutes - double that for school time or more - which is still a short commute here.  My area will start next Wednesday.  I remember not starting school until the Wednesday before Labor and getting out end of May.  When does your area start back to school?

[Susan V]

We start school August 20 and usually school is over by June 7. It seems like the summers are getting shorter and shorter.

[Jackie G]

Schools here in Scotland finished end June and go back mid August.  Think English schools about to start their hols, they're usually a few weeks after us, going back in September.

[diamondlady]

Ours vary but most schools start after Labor Day Holiday and run around Memorial Day holiday or shortly after.  The idea of going back to school during summer still amazes me.  August return to school already yikes!

[Katie G]

When I was a kid (back in the mid'70s through mid'80s) we started the day after Labor Day (the first Tuesday in September) and ended the end of June.  Now, some local suburban districts are starting the week before Labor Day, but they're ending the first week of June.   

(I still can't figure out how starting a week early, but ending three weeks early "increases" days on the school calendar, as advertised.  Then again, I'm not conversant in school administration voodoo.  )

Many of the school buildings in Philadelphia itself are old brick and/or stone structures with flat roofs no air conditioning and August temperatures can reach into the mid '90s (F) for days on end.  These buildings hold the heat like an oven.  (A news story years ago measured the temperature in one of these buildings in the summer and a classroom on the top floor was coming in at well over 90F.)   Not a good environment for anyone's well being.

Air conditioning these old buildings is cost prohibitive. There's well over 100 buildings at a couple hundred thousand dollars a pop!  So they all stay on the day after Labor Day schedule -- and it can still be unbelievably hot in there until mid to late September.  I remember as a kid the occasional classmate being sent to the nurse with nausea and dizziness from the heat in the beginning of the school year.  It always seemed to get stinking hot right after school started up. 

[countrigal]

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.

[william]

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[Ryan]

School starting is about summer to end. This is so upset, though one to meet many advantages while go to learn, especially for fist time.

[SabiaCuc]

In my area school starts as the september begins, and finishes with the beginning of june.

[SabiaCuc]

And everytime school starts i just want to clear my way to office with something of this.