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   yyyguy said, 5 months ago

   funnyhunny, i replied to your comment on yesterday’s thread - if you care to look. as for today, who can ever forget the sheer elation of “school’s out for summer”

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   Ladywolf17 said, 5 months ago

   I envy you kids not a care or worry in the world.

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   green_engineer said, 5 months ago

   Schools are still going on here in the UK …

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   MEDIC72876 said, 5 months ago

   We live in Shreveport LA and my son gets out of school today. He goes to a year round school that only gets out for July.

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   myhaircut said, 5 months ago

   Ours (Canada) let out the last week of June and start back the week after Labour Day.

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   lightenup said, 5 months ago

   We (in GA) start in early August and get out before Memorial Day (last Monday in May for the non-US people). We’re almost halfway through summer at this point. But I’d rather be outside in May and June, and inside an air conditioned school in August, so it’s fine with me.

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   prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

   Correct gmartin997, almost exactly as myhaircut states (let out last week in June, start-up again the day after Labour Day; universities start-up two days after Labour Day).

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   Macushlalondra said, 5 months ago

   I remember it was always a cause for elation, except for bringing home that last report card. Once you got through that hurdle you could enjoy the summer.

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   Bill Case said, 5 months ago

   Not in Chino Hills, where the school board made a scheduling error and the students are back to school for another six weeks!
   See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31553658/ns/us_news-education/

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    Silverpearl said, 5 months ago

    Well, there can always be snow days that delay the end of school. Rules and regulations!!

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    sjackson547 said, 5 months ago

    My mom used to say that come fall, all the parents on the block did cartwheels on the first day of school…lol

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    atajayhawk said, 5 months ago

    My mother always swore that she was sorry when we went back. Thinking about it now, though, she was a substitute teacher. She was going back, too!

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    Jogger2 said, 5 months ago

    They live near a zone for a slow school?

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    bald 716 said, 5 months ago

    when i lived in california my son was on the 45-15 session in elementary school. 45 school days in class and 15 days off.
    the middle and high schools were traditional school year, made it hard to plan a vacation if kids were in different levels of school

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    BirishB said, 5 months ago

    Cue: Alice Cooper

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    Allan Claus said, 5 months ago

    No More Papers! No More Books!
    No More Teachers Dirty Looks!
    When the principal Rings the bell…

    DROP YOUR BOOKS, RUN AND YELL!

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    RinaFarina said, 5 months ago

    @allanVS, it seems to me that the last line should be:

    DROP YOUR BOOKS AND RUN LIKE HELL!!

    just an intuitive feeling…

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 5 months ago

    Hey! Do y’all remember that those kids miss the schools since the swine flu spreaded all over the countries few months ago? They needed to make up at the schools.

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    pookid54 said, 5 months ago

    you’re right, Wild! Lots of schools closed for a few days each. Got to make up that time.

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    Carmy said, 5 months ago

    Twice, the back to school day fell on my b-day.
    Best present I ever got!

    Hi pookid!

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    pookid54 said, 5 months ago

    (((carmy)))

    You too funny!!!

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    JanCinVV said, 5 months ago

    Rina, you just had to spoil it didn’t you. Most elementary school kids are somewhat protected from foul language and would say “run & yell”, if only because they are afraid of being caught saying it the other way with teachers and parents around.
    Lets allow them their innocence for a little while at least.

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    dakabn5 said, 5 months ago

    In the US, we got out WAY before now. Like a month earlier. May something or other. We went back late August, so summer lasted longer. Ya know… like almost the WHOLE summer… almost 3 full months.

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    funnyhunny said, 5 months ago

    Oh man, the last day of school! What a joy that was!

    @ yyyguy I’ve never come down from Lillooet that way before - always use the canyon. The Sea-to-Sky has been a mess for several years now as everyone was panicking to get the upgrades finished before people started coming to the Olympics. As for the Olympics, I am looking for a huge rock to hide under during that chaos!

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    lightenup said, 5 months ago

    Good catch, Jogger2! lol… obviously you didn’t attend a slow school… :-)

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    yyyguy said, 5 months ago

    @ funnyhunny. it’s essentially a logging road. it was on my road map and the waitress who served me dinner outside of Kamloops said it was the scenic route and well worth taking. i got a couple of nice photos around Lillooet, but most of the trip was concentrating too much on driving to enjoy the scenery. i figure on heading back in a few years, but i need to drive to the east coast first.
    Olympics are best viewed on TV

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    Sternvogel said, 5 months ago

    AllanVS said, 1 day ago

    “No More Papers! No More Books!
    No More Teachers Dirty Looks!”

    I learned the first line as “No more pencils”. It’s always interesting to see variations in schoolyard rhymes.