JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 22, 2016

Stockton, CA schools started August 9.

Glad I went to school when I did…August was MINE!

You should try it in Virginia, my kid start school camps 1 Aug and school 17 Aug.

i think a better question is, how does a kid that age know the song “philadelphia freedom”?

and a kid that age watching the news?

Me, too. We always returned the day after Labor Day.

We also started the day after Labor Day and managed to get in 190 school days even with any snow day makeups living in western Pa by May 30. I graduated June 2, 1970.

Here in Florida school starts today. I have family in KS and their schools started last week.

As another Georgian has noted, schools in this state started on/about the first of the month.

But on the plus side, those schools that start earlier in August, usually get out earlier in May.

Also I think this might be the first time we’ve seen Dexter’s parents. Thankfully, my grade and high school didn’t start til around Labor Day, and let out in early-mid June

Per the web page I just located, students begin classes on September 7th in Philadelphia this year. Here where I live, students return to class tomorrow (Aug. 23rd).

In Texas, they started today. School in August…that just ain’t right.

last Monday for where I live in SC – it is inhumane (imho)

In Maryland, school always started the day after Labor Day, and ended in mid-June. Great hue and cry when The Powers That Be decided to start before the holiday; a LOT of rising seniors worked in Ocean City, and pulling them out before the last major holiday of the year made a lot of people unhappy. Schools in the South used to start in mid-August and got out at Memorial Day. Hubby’s nephew came up to visit us and got snagged by the police for truancy! Fortunately, the officer brought him over here to “speak to his parents” and we got it straightened out.

zuriaI know, the bus parade just went by. We live on a corner where they turn, creating extra noise than straight through. Maybe it is to give time to teach better grammar, at least they are air conditioned school buildings, unlike in my day when only the principal and clerical staff had such luxuries. And they were window units, indicating no one had their cool when the buildings were build..

way back in the 50’s school started the day after labor day and ended when all the snow days were made up late June…

Here in the northeast schools traditionally started after Labor Day and were out by the third week in June. That is starting to change. The “reason” is because of “Snow Days”. But that is BS. The real reason is because Xmas vacation is now 2 week instead of 1 week and there are 2 weeks of “Professional Development Days” during the school year.

Good song, though!

I teach in inland SoCal, and over the last 10 years or so we’ve shifted the start of school from Labor Day to early August. I didn’t like the idea at first, but it’s actually kind of nice. We get a full week off for Thanksgiving and 3 weeks in December. Now and then we even get two weeks off in the Spring. All those mini-breaks take the edge off the whole year long, and Summer still gives us time to relax without getting bored or stir-crazy near the end.