"Gloria P" <gpuester@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> dejablues wrote:
>
>>
>> I find it very weird that kids go back to school before Labor Day! We
>> don't even get the class assignments and schedules until the last week
in
>> August.
>> I have a 5th grader in elementary school, a 10th grader in high school,
>> and a freshman in college, and they all start cl***** on Sept. 3rd.
>> We haven't even gone on vacation yet!
>
> We moved from the east coast where custom was to start school the
> Wednesday after Labor Day and finish around June 25.
>
> Living in Colorado, school starts here the last week in August and
> finishes around June 5. The last week of October is vacation, plus two
> weeks at Christmas, the last week in March, and various Monday holidays.
> State law mandates 180 days of school.
>
> Unfortunately people don't think to check when moving here during the
> summer and new kids come to register all the way till mid September,
> putting them 3 weeks behind in all their cl*****, and causing
overcrowded
> cl***** because it's so hard to anticipate numbers when cl***** are set
> the spring before.
>
> gloria p
That's a shame, messes things up for everybody, especially the kids. Who
would move someplace without checking out the schools first??? You would
think that would be priority one.
B
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