Posted on 08/21/2019 5:21:10 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Here it is, the end of August already.
Labor Day is looming on the horizon, its hot breath bearing down on our necks. That means that some school districts have already restarted their indoctrination programs, and the others will do so within the next 2 weeks.
Feeling the intractable advance of time bearing down on my “jobs to complete this summer” list convinced me to sub out today’s post, without permission but with attribution, to Mr. Van der Leun. In his post, Back to School, Gerard turns a sympathetic eye to the plight of a 10 year as he views his life thus far: a seemingly interminable sentence of classroom drudgery and boredom interrupted only by the two-a-day recesses.
Day in day out, week in week out, year in year out … you trudge off to this room crammed to the brim with bird’s nests, flash cards, trilobites, pilgrim hats, Indian headdresses, drawings and paintings in which the proportion of the head to the body is never right, but looks for all the world like an exhibit by demented Fauvists with no drawing skills whatsoever and a very garish color sense. Twice a day, everybody in this room is let out. Is it any wonder they run screaming into the sunshine?
The protocol is broken occasionally by holidays, extended summer vacations and snow days, if you’re lucky enough to live north of the Florida Keys, but that just makes the whole affair worse by presenting a temporary glimpse of freedom beyond the walls. As they say, read the whole thing. You’ll never wax idyllically about good old fashioned school days again.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
“Day in day out, week in week out, year in year out … you trudge off to this room crammed to the brim with bird’s nests, flash cards, trilobites, pilgrim hats, Indian headdresses, drawings and paintings in which the proportion of the head to the body is never right, but looks for all the world like an exhibit by demented Fauvists with no drawing skills whatsoever and a very garish color sense. Twice a day, everybody in this room is let out. Is it any wonder they run screaming into the sunshine?”
And now we know why ADD is prevalent in schools.
I hated school with a passion. I felt it a 13 year prison sentence. I got terrible grades but managed to educate myself with texts and periodicals on history and engineering. I’ve done alright for myself in the long run.
Gee...
What’s noticeably ABSENT from the picture of the kids running:
A young white boy.
Interesting...
So summer is chronologically three months, roughly June 20 to September 20th. But school starts early Aug to early September cutting out two to four of the ~12 weeks of summer.
Being out of school for decades has not relieved me of this psychological event making summer artificially short, but I am finding that reminding myself of the “extra” weeks outside the school “summer” has its benefits as well.
And the last couple weeks of chronological summer can be the best of the year. Still warm, no kids as they are all in school, and still fall is beautiful as well in northern MI.
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