I discovered this at the fair (schools, college, to move) - City-Data Forum

missymomof3 · 08-17-2008, 06:54 AM

This is an organization who is trying to get the summer breaks for kids back to last longer like it did when alot of us were children.

Save Our Summers Kentucky

dixiegirl7 · 08-17-2008, 10:23 AM

I am all for that. My son is in college which does start later, but I just think these schools start earlier and earlier. Both sytsems in Warren County started the first week of August right in the hottest part of summer. Those busses do not have air conditioning. When my son was in school it seemed just about as soon as he got out he had to go back. I know a lot of parents want them in school year round to get rid of them, but I always enjoyed having mine at home.

missymomof3 · 08-17-2008, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by dixiegirl7

I am all for that. My son is in college which does start later, but I just think these schools start earlier and earlier. Both sytsems in Warren County started the first week of August right in the hottest part of summer. Those busses do not have air conditioning. When my son was in school it seemed just about as soon as he got out he had to go back. I know a lot of parents want them in school year round to get rid of them, but I always enjoyed having mine at home.

I may be crazy but I signed the petition.

Digger57 · 08-17-2008, 01:24 PM

I am all for kids having a long summer! But I also understand the struggle the schools are having with test scores. It seems to me that parents should be more involved with their children's school work while they are in session like MY parents were. That would improve things a lot.
That being said, I would still like a longer summer break and improved education for our children. I'm just not sure how to achieve both.

I guess that's why I quit teaching a long time ago. I loved it, but didn't have all the answers and was apalled at parent's attitude even way back then. But I will not get on my soapbox...

Dig~

nlschr0 · 08-17-2008, 02:56 PM

Hmmm this is very interesting to me, because I know that at the district where I teach, we had to move our start date even closer to the beginning of August because the state has been requiring more minimum instructional days than ever.

So, in many districts it would require intervention at the state level to make it a possibility at all. This year, when you count the time for mandatory professional development activities, our teachers had less than six weeks from the end of last school year to the beginning of this one.

ETA: Fortunately all of our schools have modern air conditioning services. I can't imagine what the staff and students suffer through in some of the districts with older buildings that rely on window units, or nothing at all.