[Wneighbor]

Well, I like that King's Dominion law! I wish we had one. We used to always start school the day after Labor day. This year Myranda had to go back on like August 7 or something. Besides the fact that I don't like it, can you imagine the bill for paying for that air conditioning here in Texas?!?!

[carton253]

I am supposed to be learn vocabulary... but does this crazy book use the vocabulary of the lesson... no.... they are introducing words I don't know.

That's right... I don't know them because arabic is not my mother tongue.

Sometimes I get so frustrated.

[Corin Stormhands]

But the problem is, up here we have to build in enough snow days that school doesn't get out until the middle of June. It's a trade-off.

We barely made it through this year without having to add days at the end of the year. We missed two days for the snipers and then a bunch of snow days.

What gets me is the years when we don't have snow days, and they have to give the kids the time off that they've built into the schedule. A few years back we missed no days for snow, so they gave them a five-day weekend for Memorial Day. Then they were supposed to come back for an additional two weeks and end "on time."

It was a stupid move. NOBODY accomplished anything after that break. The kids were already in summer mode.

Of course my county is also the county that scheduled Martin Luther King, Jr. day as a make-up day. Then, when they started getting heat, the School Board actually said (and I am not making this up) "Well, if it's an important day to you, you will not be counted as absent."

Over 40% of the kids didn't show that day.