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Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / August 2008ALRIGHTY THEN!
So now that I can post again, I thought I'd update everyone who has been waiting breathlessly for the next pearls....hahaha Actually, not much is going on. The girls are back in school (7th and 8th) and love it, they like schedules as much as I do. Caroline made the middle school softball team so she has been practicing daily. Clare is doing the same with her tumbling/cheering. I am back to part time again at work since our census is down (good for the general public, bad for business...I work in hospice) and I am busy redoing the bathroom, a little at a time. Currently making dinner and happy happy happy that I can post again....Beth > So now that I can post again, I thought I'd update everyone who has been > waiting breathlessly for the next pearls....hahaha [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Currently making dinner and happy happy happy that I can post > again....Beth I find it very weird that kids go back to school before Labor Day! We don't even get the class assignments and schedules until the last week in August. I have a 5th grader in elementary school, a 10th grader in high school, and a freshman in college, and they all start classes on Sept. 3rd. We haven't even gone on vacation yet! > I find it very weird that kids go back to school before > Labor Day! We don't even get the class assignments and > schedules until the last week in August. I have a 5th > grader in elementary school, a 10th grader in high school, > and a freshman in college, and they all start classes on > Sept. 3rd. We haven't even gone on vacation yet! i think it's stupid to start classes before Labor Day. we were just told told Boo's school starts Aug. 26. we had already made plans a month ago to meet an online friend from Australia for a train ride (Conway Scenic Railroad, the dinner train to Bartlett) later in that week. so, he'll go to school one day & then miss one or two days... stupid, but we're not changing our plans. besides, what's the point of a couple days of school, then a long weekend? that makes 2 short weeks where nothing gets accomplished anyway. it's a big part of what makes the whole mandated 180 days of school a joke. lee  SignatureLast night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. >> I find it very weird that kids go back to school before >> Labor Day! We don't even get the class assignments and [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > mandated 180 days of school a joke. > lee They don't have to give out a schedule earlier that that? At least we have the whole next year's schedule before school is out the previous year. Sounds like Boo will get more out of the train ride and meeting friends from the other side of the world than school. Last year we went to Mexico and the girls missed one day of school....one of those bogus half days...and we let then know ahead of time why, plus we went to the Aztec Museum and took photos of ruins and brought back stuff to share, as they were studying the Aztec and Mayan culture. And they got unexcused absences!! Even though I went twice to the 'graduation coach' to discuss it. ridiculous > They don't have to give out a schedule earlier that that? > At least we have the whole next year's schedule before > school is out the previous year. no, they don't. he's in a Montessori school, & this year he's starting at a different one, but i've never had more than 3 weeks notice before the start of school. and this summer has been rather messed up with surgery & radiation therapy, so i'm NOT ready for school to start. i have mose projects i wanted to get done with Boo :p > Sounds like Boo will get more out of the train ride and > meeting friends from the other side of the world than [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > And they got unexcused absences!! Even though I went twice > to the 'graduation coach' to discuss it. ridiculous yet another reason i won't use public schools. we're planning a trip to Ireland/Scotland in a year or so. it may stretch into a 6 month or longer 'world tour'... i realize public schools really frown on that sort of broadening of the child's world view... better to get a dry *old* textbook view, don'tcha know. lee <don't think my parents had the same trouble when we went out of country for a week during the school year> SignatureLast night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. > I find it very weird that kids go back to school before Labor Day! We don't > even get the class assignments and schedules until the last week in August. > I have a 5th grader in elementary school, a 10th grader in high school, and > a freshman in college, and they all start classes on Sept. 3rd. > We haven't even gone on vacation yet! We moved from the east coast where custom was to start school the Wednesday after Labor Day and finish around June 25. Living in Colorado, school starts here the last week in August and finishes around June 5. The last week of October is vacation, plus two weeks at Christmas, the last week in March, and various Monday holidays. State law mandates 180 days of school. Unfortunately people don't think to check when moving here during the summer and new kids come to register all the way till mid September, putting them 3 weeks behind in all their classes, and causing overcrowded classes because it's so hard to anticipate numbers when classes are set the spring before. gloria p >> I find it very weird that kids go back to school before Labor Day! We >> don't even get the class assignments and schedules until the last week in [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > gloria p That's a shame, messes things up for everybody, especially the kids. Who would move someplace without checking out the schools first??? You would think that would be priority one. B >> So now that I can post again, I thought I'd update everyone who has been >> waiting breathlessly for the next pearls....hahaha [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > and a freshman in college, and they all start classes on Sept. 3rd. > We haven't even gone on vacation yet! Lucky! It seems that August was always the best month of summer when I was young, now it is fall as far as my kids are concerned. They get out of school around May 20, with 2 week long breaks plus a week for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks for Christmas, and lots of bogus half days where they eat lunch at 0930 and get out at 11....so the school gets federal money for showing a movie and handing out a bag lunch. grrr |
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