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[kdfrawg]

That's more than a lot of current big-city graduates can manage, Sally.

[Wilma]

And, Sally, your typing, spelling, sentence construction, punctuation and grammar are all right, too.

[Diane Amberg]

 We got to see a shuttle launch almost by accident several years ago. We had gone to a post polio conference at Daytona Beach. We had a long lunch break one day so we jumped in the pool for awhile. One of the hotel staff came out to tell us that Columbia was about to go up. We got to watch it from the pool.  The roar was very loud even from that far away.  Another good memory.
  When I was going to school, it started the day after Labor Day.  We had 2 days off at Thanksgiving, a week at Christmas, one day at Easter, one day on Memorial Day.  We were out around June 3rd.

[flo]

we started the day after labor day and were always out the 3rd week of May.  Usually around the 23rd.

[emptynest]

That's the way I wish it still was.  Don't get me wrong, I do like some time off at Christmas and the spring break is nice, but if the school district would just try it for a period of 3 years, keeping track of attendance, test scores, performance and AYP (Adequate YEarly Progress) for "No Child Left Behind"  amd we maintained satisfactory levels, then it seems to me we'd be better of financially---- less cooling cost, transportation, etc.

"When you do what you always do, you'll get what you always got."

[Diane Amberg]

 Mom had told me that the Kansas school year just wasn't as long when she was in school.  They were always out before Memorial Day too.  The trend now is longer and longer.  Our schools are now looking at either longer days or adding more days.  The public middle and high schools start 1st period at 7:15, often after a 30 to 45 min. bus ride.  They are slowly trying to get back to "neighborhood" schools but it's taking years to do it.

[frawin]

I guess this tells my age, but we were dismissed for summer in mid-April as long as I was in elementary school.  Never started until the day after Labor Day.  We had about a week to 10 days off for Christmas (depending on how the holidays fell).  Had Thursday and Friday off at Thanksgiving and Thursday and Friday off for State Teachers Meeting. 

My Dad used to tell that they sometimes went 7 months.

mlw

[Dee Gee]

Yes, when I went to the first eight grades in a one room school we also started after Labor Day and got out in the last of April but that all changed when I started High school. It started after Labor Day but didn't get out until the middle of May.

[MarineMom]

I think that one of the reasons the school year was shorter was because a lot of farm family children were pulled out of school to work in the fields or in the garden and kitchen during the summer months.

[Dee Gee]

I believe you are correct, because the older boys in the school would be absent in the early fall and late spring because they would helping with the harvest and planting at those times.