when do the schools (K-12) start in you area?

[pstokely]

around here they got out late may, they start mid-August, they start the first weeek of August in some places, does it have to with when the Standardized Tests are done?

[teach1st]

1. Pinellas County, Florida: 8/3

It has to do with wanting high school students to take first semester finals before the Winter break, but the extra weeks before standardized testing swayed many people.

[pstokely]

5. when did they get out?

?

[teach1st]

8. The kids got out on 5/18

I'm already getting my class stuff together for another school year.

[childslibrarian]

2. We start after labor day

Late start this year.

[flamingyouth]

3. Seattle schools, always 2 days after Labor Day

Now I think it's different, but that was always the case when I was in school ('74 to '86)

[pstokely]

4. why that late?

do they have standardized later than other states?

[flamingyouth]

6. It never seemed late to me

Seemed just right. :shrug:

The University of Washington always starts on the last Monday of September, which was great, as September is a beautiful month here.

[Katarina]

7. August 11th

here in Flagler County, Florida. I always think it is so strange how early school starts now. When I was in school - granted that was a long time ago - but we never started before Labor Day.

[sybylla]

9. Now, September 1

School used to start earlier in August but the tourism lobbiest bought themselves a bunch of repug reps and got them to change the law so that the tourism folks had a steady supply of cheap labor right up to Labor Day, depending on the year.

But ask a repig to make a law regarding the operation of schools that's in the best interest of the kids and they scream like sissies and get all indignant.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. August 30th.

SE Michigan. Too early to start counting. ;)

[MrSlayer]

11. September in Philadelphia.

[Cush]

12. day after Labor Day

[SW FL Dem]

13. 8/16 here - the School Board wanted to start 8/9 but parents

and teachers screamed. We got out just before Memorial Day. We lost a few vacation days the first semester to accomodate the later start.