Monsignor Pope Ping!
Looking like summer is hanging on here in central CA. 110+º for the next several days.
I agree with this completely. In the ‘old days’, Summer vacation was every bit as instructive in its way, as the school year was. I probably learned MORE in the Summer, through independent reading and activities, time to contemplate and grow interiorly, etc., than I did in school.
The Deep State is always developing new information that must be transferred into your offspring via educational endoctrination.
Eventually, they will demand around-the-clock access...for the good of the children, of course.
It affects even homeschoolers. My parish tries to coordinate Faith Formation around three different county school systems. Can the Stewardship Committee meet? No, it's spring break. Is this a good date for a Spirituality event? No, Friday's a teacher workday: people will treat it as a three-day weekend.
It takes time to indoctrinate children. Especially when you have to waste so much of the day on actual education.
Even in my late sixties, I still count the passing years by their Summers, just like I did as a schoolchild.
This guy is consistently right. I am amazed he has not been shipped off to a monastery and silenced.
I feel so bad for kids these days, with the school year starting earlier and ending later. This was happening when my son was in school, thirty years ago.
Sending kids back to that prison-like environment, sticking them into a classroom to listen to some teacher drone on and on about really boring stuff, and then when they leave the classroom, the bigger kids bully the smaller kids, with detrimental effect on both sides... it’s awful. School is such a horrible environment, it is institutionalized child abuse, as far as I am concerned.
One advantage of starting school in August is that the semester break coincides with the Christmas break. Instead of having book reports and mid-year exams hanging over your head during the holidays, the semester in over.
The socialists don’t like families bonding during summer break which is why they want to indoctrinate the kiddies year round!
It pained me this past Monday to see our local schools open for the new year. Until this year, our Virginia schools didn’t open until after Labor Day. I was comfortable with that, expected it, as it was the way it was done in “my day.” Maryland’s governor completely reversed their picture whereby they used to open the last of August and now it’s after Labor Day. So the two states have flipped on that.
So much of what used to be “family time” has come to an end. Dinner together? Seriously? What I used to look forward to about the Christmas (”Winter”) break was being together and time to play board games. Couldn’t take time for that when school was in session. Kids had homework, Mom had PTA, Dad had to work to cover it all. (at home mother).
At least I am seeing the young professional parents that I know making the effort to spend all their time with their kids on weekends, perhaps trying to compensate for the long week days with barely any time for each other.