May 14, 2005
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Well, wouldn't you know it! Now that most of my
kids are through school (still Dmitry to go, but he's at a private
school so won't be affected), the Texas legislature decides that school
will start the Tuesday after Labor Day in Sept. '06. The school
districts are having a hissy fit about it, and parents are described as
"lukewarm", but I can't help but think that's because they've never
known anything but early-to-mid August openings.Tell you what, if you're here in Texas and want to be able to take your
kids on a comparatively-inexpensive cruise, book a late-August '06
cruise NOW. The rates drop dramatically then. Checking the
Carnival website, an inside cabin on the seven day cruise on the
Elation, sailing out of Galveston on August 20, 2006, is only
$529. For a hundred bucks less you can sail for five days on the
Ecstasy, departing the next day.This is killing me.
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i WISH i could book a cruise. haha. anyway money issues aside it's probably a good idea that i stay on dry land that late in pregnancy anyway.
Living in a short-summer clime (Michigan) I could never understand why schools start the third week in August. August is one of our two warm-weather months (guess what the other one is) and the kids are in school for 1/4 of our guaranteed (well, maybe not guaranteed - it is Michigan after all) good weather. Course, everyone likes having two weeks at Christmas, a week in late March and a three-day weekend every month so the time has to be made up somewhere.
Temple Christian starts August 8 this year. Dmitry can't get over having his "summer" birthday of August 16th suddenly morphed into a go-to-school-on-your-birthday birthday. He hates it.
In California we always started the first Tuesday after Labor Day, and ended second Friday in June. I can't get over children getting out in May and starting in August. Of course we homeschool, so this year our boy is going to be doing "some" work all summer.
That's what I grew up with, except I think we used to get out fairly early in June. I seem to recall truly having three months off, not the two and a half they get now.
Of course, it's true there are additional days off during the school year now that we didn't have when I was in school.
It's the same in CT: we always started the week after Labor day. The snag was that if there were alot of snow days, school can end pretty late. One year it was almost July before we got out. OTOH, by havng school start in August, it avoids a long month that can be pretty dreary and dull since there are no holidays. That's my memory from childhood, anyway. It was that long, boring month where all my friends were elsewhere and the weather was dreadfully hot.
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