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SaraV said:
cooler has the most solid advice. Go. Have fun. Don't jeopardize graduating.

So, let me spin off a question. When I was in school, back in the medeval times, we started school usually the last Monday of August, and went through about the first Monday of June. Standard two weeks off for Christmas vacation, one week for spring/Easter. (Our spring break was always the week after Easter) This was standard from kindergarten through HS. A quick look at my K-8 school district shows they seem to still hold to that. My HS, though, has its last day of classes (2 finals basically) the Thursday before Memorial Day, and then they're back for first day of classes on August 17th.
I know this has been the norm for awhile, but can any parents shed a light on why, and perhaps if you like it or not?
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Growing up, we always started around August 23-24 and finished around May 23-24. The only time I went to school in June was summer school at ISU. We never had spring break, though, just half a day on Holy Thursday and off on Good Friday. I went to Catholic school, but we were on the same schedule as the public school since we shared buses.

My daughter usually starts right around her birthday (August 18th) and finishes around May 23-25.

Personally, I like them starting earlier and getting out earlier. I'd rather have the kids out of school when it's nicer outside at the end of May then when it's 100 degrees in August. It gives a little more freedom for outdoor vacation options.
 
We we're doing work for an older cousin of my boss today. She is about in her mid 70s I'd say. Yesterday, we were working at the church that she attends. Another member of the church, who my boss is friends with and is the one that hired us for the job told him about something his cousin said one day after church.

So today, she ended up telling us the story. One day after church, she had fallen. Her husband and the pastor were helping her up and she blurts out "Ouch! It feels like I broke my p****y."
 
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stormchaser2014 said:
We we're doing work for an older cousin of my boss today. She is about in her mid 70s I'd say. Yesterday, we were working at the church that she attends. Another member of the church, who my boss is friends with and is the one that hired us for the job told him about something his cousin said one day after church.

So today, she ended up telling us the story. One day after church, she had fallen. Her husband and the pastor were helping her up and she blurts out "Ouch! It feels like I broke my p****y."
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when I was much younger, I had a pair of jeans I must have been growing out of. Told my mom I didn't like them anymore because they "hurt my nuts".

Still remember her laughing at that.
 
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cowgirl836 said:
when I was much younger, I had a pair of jeans I must have been growing out of. Told my mom I didn't like them anymore because they "hurt my nuts".

Still remember her laughing at that.
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Boss's son bought a tablet yesterday for $5 at a rummage sale at the church we were working at. The lady who put it in the sale left all her information on it and it was still connected to her phone service.
 
Re: school question from Sara
I think right now there are a lot more teacher contact days/hours required so the kids have more time off during the school year but the teachers are still there. We get a couple days at Thanksgiving, usually about 2 weeks at Christmas, and then have a full week off for spring break same time as ISU. This year they scheduled it so it was an early out on Thursday, no school Friday, entire next week off. We don't usually have time off around Easter. And our school goes back and forth on whether or not they build in snow days or not. One year we had a ton and ended up going until June 8th after starting mid-August because they tacked them all on at the end. We were supposed to be done May 31st, had one day off because of a water main break so are done June 1st. Another school close is done May 26th.

I don't mind the earlier start. By that time I am ready for kids to be done. It seems like we almost always go past a Memorial Day. Now that I will have a high schooler, summer is going to fly. Softball all June, then Driver's Ed, volleyball open gym through July, strength and conditioning all June and July, then volleyball will start in August.
 
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Boss's son bought a tablet yesterday for $5 at a rummage sale at the church we were working at. The lady who put it in the sale left all her information on it and it was still connected to her phone service.
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That's a lot of free Netflix.
 
My senior skip day had probably about half the class skip (43 kids in class). We all drove about 45 minutes away to what we call "The Hills" where a buddy had some land.

Someone was dumb and left directions to this remote area on the printer so every one knew exactly where everyone was. No one got in trouble though. I think one teacher had a pop quiz where all you had to do was fill in your name

Started with 40 hands on the way to the place at 8 in the morning. Probably one of the funnest days in high school even though I'm not sure anyone remembers most of the night.
 
Big Brown bat (Northern myotis) on my ginko tree this afternoon. Hey, Chaser, you run into bats hibernating or roosting in tree hollows?

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Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on Star Wars day. Was really funny, moments when the audience was laughing so loud you couldn't hear the next line. Stay through the credits, there were multiple extra scenes.
 
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so watching the end of the news Wednesday night and they go "breaking news, reports out of the UK say that an emergency meeting has been called at Buckingham Palace and all the Queen's staff have been asked to report. No details yet, blah blah."

Cue:

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I'm very selfishly like no, no one can be dying, no one die. I tell Dh wouldn't that just be our luck. The monarch of some 60 years dies right before we go, the whole country is in mourning and closes the places we want to see. Thankfully, it's apparently just the 96 year old Prince stepping down from royal duties. Why this was announced at 3am UK time, I have no idea.
 
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so watching the end of the news Wednesday night and they go "breaking news, reports out of the UK say that an emergency meeting has been called at Buckingham Palace and all the Queen's staff have been asked to report. No details yet, blah blah."

Cue:

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I'm very selfishly like no, no one can be dying, no one die. I tell Dh wouldn't that just be our luck. The monarch of some 60 years dies right before we go, the whole country is in mourning and closes the places we want to see. Thankfully, it's apparently just the 96 year old Prince stepping down from royal duties. Why this was announced at 3am UK time, I have no idea.
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A few days before I went I decided to be smart and convert dollars to pounds because everyone says you get a better exchange here. 2 days later Brexit happened and my pounds lost 11% of their value.
 
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