I was shocked, SHOCKED, I tells ya, when I found out that some schools start BEFORE Labor Day.More districts start after Labor Day than I thought
It makes sense.I was shocked, SHOCKED, I tells ya, when I found out that some schools start BEFORE Labor Day.
The year was 1977. I was 16. Elvis Presley died. The news reported that Memphis schools were considering closing or did close for a day.
It blew my mind. Not that schools would close for him, but that they were in session so early.
I guess that was my first experience with “It must be regional.” Northeast US public schools don’t start before Labor Day.
When I started teaching in 1989, we were given days to prepare our classrooms. Over the years it began to gradually shift - 3 days in the classroom, 1 day in PD. Then 2/2. About 10 years ago it shifted to a half day to get our rooms ready and lesson plan and 3.5 days in meetings and PD. Almost all of us had to go in before our report day to set up our rooms.Do the teachers get any time before that to get organized, or are they expected to come in on their own time? We get four full paid days of prep time before the kids come.
Here the shift to starting in August started 20 years ago. The reason, first semester final exams will now be before Christmas break, not after. The first part of January was a waste of time since it was used to get the kids back up to speed after a two week vacation, then finals would be the third week of January.I was shocked, SHOCKED, I tells ya, when I found out that some schools start BEFORE Labor Day.
The year was 1977. I was 16. Elvis Presley died. The news reported that Memphis schools were considering closing or did close for a day.
It blew my mind. Not that schools would close for him, but that they were in session so early.
I guess that was my first experience with “It must be regional.” Northeast US public schools don’t start before Labor Day.
Yep, When I first moved to California, LA schools started right after Labor Day. Then a year or two later it was the week before. A year or two after that it changed to TWO weeks before LD.Here the shift to starting in August started 20 years ago. The reason, first semester final exams will now be before Christmas break, not after. The first part of January was a waste of time since it was used to get the kids back up to speed after a two week vacation, then finals would be the third week of January.