# is august 8th too early to go back to school ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 12, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712 "2016-07-12T07:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712/21 "2016-07-13T15:50:41Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Care to share where y’all live? > > I’m interested to know where kids go back to school in Aug. as its unheard of where I live. (Okay, very occasionally it’s the very last day of August!) In Arizona we got generally got out of school late in mid May and came back mid-August. Where I am now, we get out around mid June, and come back in late September (frequently the last week). There seems to be a pretty wide variance. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712/22 "2016-07-13T20:24:00Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#): > > There probably aren’t even many college graduates alive today, outside of nursing homes, who went to college before online classes were available. > > Actually I graduated early because I always took summer classes and it was a great decision. Online classes made it possible to even do an internship over the summer and take classes. Huh? There were no online classes in existence when I went to college (80 to 84) and at 53 I’m hardly ready for a nursing home! One of my college roommates had one of those fancy Apple IIe computers, and that was a rare thing at the time. I considered myself lucky to have an electric typewriter. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712/23 "2016-07-14T02:01:44Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Um, I’m 62, having graduated from college in 1979, and I’m not only not in a nursing home - I’m still working. I’m pretty sure I’m not that much of an anomaly. I’m 60, class of 1977. Still working (with computers!) In college I played Space Invaders in the basement of the science building, using command line and a dot matrix printer. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712/24 "2016-07-14T03:59:27Z")
I was one of the first kids who got busted for using a computer to do their homework It was a ti-99 4/a …and I used it to check my math in the 4th grade my teacher realized I was improving too well too fast (or as she said “i know I’m good but not that good for a miracle”) but we compromised as long as I shown how I did it and grandma watched me I could check the answers … ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712/25 "2016-07-14T04:20:28Z")
I’m only 35, and if there were online courses when I went to college at the beginning of the millennium, I certainly didn’t know about them. Our fall term ran September to Thanksgiving with all of December off, then had winter and spring terms, with no classes in the summer. When I went back to grad school a few years ago (where I did take online classes), the Fall semester started in very late September. Winter started in January, Spring in late march/early April, and Summer in late June/early July. 11 week classes, 2 week breaks. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712/26 "2016-07-14T04:29:41Z")
A couple weeks early. We typically started the Monday before labor day. We got a full week of school before the holiday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-august-8th-too-early-to-go-back-to-school/759712.md?page=1)