Posted on 08/18/2016 11:00:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In Los Angeles County, 22 school districts started school this week, and only four of the county’s 80 districts do not have an August start date, according to the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
For some children in Los Angeles County, the first day of school has seemed to move earlier and earlier into August. That change has left some parents wondering what happened to school typically starting after Labor Day?
In Los Angeles County, 22 school districts started school this week, and only four of the county’s 80 districts do not have an August start date, according to the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
By starting school in August, teachers and students are able to complete the first semester before leaving for winter break. Earlier start dates also give students more time to study before they take state standardized tests and Advanced Placement exams, and has given some schools the opportunity to extend their winter breaks so they can schedule catch-up classes to take place during the break.
Yet, the change in schedule has raised some districts’ electricity bills because of the August heat.
Palm Springs Unified School District started school Wednesday, and school district spokeswoman Joan Boiko said that their start date adds about $6,500 more per day to their electricity bill, largely due to the cost of air conditioning.
Read more at KPPC.
Leftists always want to change things and fix things that don’t need fixing.
Their goal is to get year round school.
I heard a PSA the other day with Michelle Obama essentially making the case for that, spouting some nonsense about how with a long break kids forget what they learned.
Winter Break?
I live in S. CA, we don’t do Winter, we only watch it on TV.
The real reason they start so early is to create a longer winter break, or what used to be known as a Christmas break. The reason they want a longer Christmas break is that half the student population is Mexican and they return to Mexico for a month or two December through January. The schools receive funds according to attendance. With a significant amount of the student population lazing in Mexico, the schools do not collect the funds they possibly could if the alter the schedule.
they'll make all the made up reasons they can, but it comes down to what the teachers wanted and how it benefits them with more money, more vacation, more Christmas time, etc....
its the teachers...
The sad thing is there are lots of schools that don’t have air conditioning. I would hate to be a teacher or student in those schools.
You know, air conditioning is a bigger threat than terrorism...
They do it in Tennessee too
And school starts at 730
My dear wife is up at five
I hate it
They do get more vacation time in the school year.....prolly two more weeks than I did 40-50 years ago...but that school system changed too
We got two days Turkey day....two weeks Christmas ....two days teacher meets in March...and good Friday.....but we got exactly the three calendar months before day after Labor Day off
My kids go from 8-8-2016 to 5-23-16 depending on snow days used
Thought sure it was due to climate change.
Didn’t have any air conditioning at any school when I went K through 12.
Yeah, I know; I am a dinosaur.
It has not left us wondering; it has a bunch of us mad about it.
The reason is teachers want longer breaks on the Christmas and Easter breaks. Kids are home at Christmas for over three weeks. Allows for extended winter vacation for teachers. Hardship on parents. Too mad to even talk about this one.
That’s not it. It is pushed by the teachers. They want to longer winter break.
Was it 112 degrees F today where you live?
Neither did I in So Cal in the 70's Mostly due to the Jr High being built in the 50’s and the high school in the 30’s. Of course my High School was leveled for essentially an extension of the Brea Mall and a nice new High Tech HS built up the road. The Jr High has since been retrofitted with A/C so the Snowflakes don't melt.
teachers want a paycheck as soon as possible.
after the summer break.
what about that don’t people get?
Most teachers I know spread their pay over the year, so they get paid all summer.
Nice work I guess.
This would force a readjustment on the various sectors of the economy built around the presence of tens of millions of idle students in the summer months. The summer camp industry would be hard hit. But I think we'd see better educational results, and working parents would find the change welcome once they got used to it.
Likewise, and my school had only a single potbelly stove for heat.
Isn't it remarkable that kids actually learned to read, write, and cipher in those primitive times!
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