How many days of school left |Pad Patter 5.25

I love my kids but summer is too long. (That's from an academic standpoint: they lose so much over the summer.) My son graduates preschool next Friday. He's so excited for kindergarten that I worry summer is going to feel long for him. He's already asked "so I graduate Friday. That means kindergarten starts on Monday, right?" *sigh*

 

Oh man... I love summer. If only there was a plug to keep all the information in! I relish the lazier days, no homework (besides reading), no frustrations of project or the like! I love being able to fly by the seat of our pants more.

We finish June 22. So.... 2 half days, and 18 full days. Approx 40,320 minutes,

 

My 5th grader has 5 days left - finishes June 2nd. And my Junior has 3 days - finishes May 31st. It doesn't seem fair that the high school gets out 2 days earlier. On paper they don't, but the teachers and administration tell them not to come to school those last 2 days because it's just practices for graduation. Plus I think the teachers want peace and quiet to clean out their rooms for the summer. Too bad the elementary school and junior high teachers don't get the same benefit.

I think I'm ready for summer. I want the lazier days, but come the end of July, I'm sure I'll be wanting school to start again. By then August 23rd won't come soon enough... hehe

 

My college son finished about 3 weeks ago. DD finished her outside classes 2 weeks ago, but still has work for me to finish: Algebra and US History. That will continue through out the summer until she gets it done. Ah, the joys (or not) of homeschooling. So I have been in Summer mode for about 3 weeks now.

 

10 more days here...June 9th is the last day.

 

Our kids finish school on June 30 and than we have 2 months summer vacation and we are going to start vacation already at the last of school, going away for a week to The Netherlands

 

Clara, a freshman in Catholic school, ends June 2nd. Alex, a junior in public school, ends June 20th. She'll start back 8/17 and he'll go back 9/5. Makes for a short summer for our family.

 

My daughter graduated from seminary with an M.Div last weekend. That's it. No more kids in school for me. Also my kids don't even live with me anymore! The college that I work at has College for Kids in July so although, I'm not directly involved in the program, I'll get to see a bunch of kids running around campus which is always fun and nostalgic for me. My son started going to College for Kids at the same campus 21 years ago! I told someone in the Continuing Education office that he went that long ago...she just stared at me for a moment and I realized that she may not even be 21 years old!

 

My DS got home from college last night. Courtney's last day of regular class is tomorrow and she has finals next week and graduates on Friday.

 

OMG, that makes soooo much more sense. Even when I was in school I thought "Why the heck do we have winter break and then finish up the semester? Isn't it just easier to end the semester the same day we start break?" Gosh, I guess I've always been someone who 1. questions authority and 2. likes a clean end to things.

 

Clara's school does this and it was so nice for her to have an actual break at Christmas. Alex's school's first semester didn't end until three weeks into January. His school banned teachers from assigning projects over the break, but he knew he still had to study with finals coming up. Wasn't quite the same break that Clara had.

 

My husband doesn't get a summer break from school this year. His medical school schedule is such that he goes straight from 3rd year to 4th year (and the last year he will ever be in school!) in June. Last year he got a grand total of 2 weeks off in the summer, so it wasn't much better! But this fall/winter he will have two month-long blocks off for residency interviews, so he'll get some downtime then.

 

Both my boys go until June 9th and it can't come fast enough for any of us. May is always jam packed with all the year end stuff and we all need a break! I love that they get some downtime and can stay up late and sleep in and enjoy free time. It's a rarity around here while school's happening.

 

Last regular day of classes is June 12th ... and then testing begins. The last day of state testing is June 22nd ... during the 8 days of testing I believe my kids each have 3 exams - so they will only be there for about 2-3 hours on 3 of those days. But the stress of studying/prepping for the exams ... ugh. I hate this time of year!