# When does school start in your area? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102 "2008-08-24T15:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/21 "2008-08-24T23:47:25Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Mine go back tomorrow for an “orientation week” that is mandatory for new students and students entering a new classroom (our Pre-K/K and elementary classes are blended, so a 1st grader will be in the same classroom through 3rd grade), and optional for everyone else. Hell yeah my kids are going back early! 🙂 It really is a great way to get the kids back into “school mode.” School “officially” begins on Tuesday, September 2. [/QUOTE] Not to hijack here but I never understood who thought this was a good idea, having multiple grades in the same classroom. I went to a parochial school for 1.5 years and 7th and 8th were together and 9-12 were together in the same room. What a f\*\*king joke that was. The worst education I have ever recieved. I’m not sure what the division was for lower elementary grades but it was a real show in 7/8 let alone 9-12. It just didn’t work. All the school cared about was recieving tuition for as many students as possible without having to pay for the appropriate # of teachers. School starts the 2nd here BTW. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/22 "2008-08-25T00:03:11Z")
School starts tomorrow. I’ve been in contact with my son’s teacher for over a week, though. There’s also been some interest in pushing the start of school back to after Labor Day to keep the tourism industry staffed, but so far, it’s been all one-sided. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/23 "2008-08-25T00:03:20Z")
Two weeks ago. The main reason for that is that the opening of deer-hunting season in Utah is a state-wide school holiday. The did that because the dads would take the boys out of school to go hunting anyway. Better to declare a vacation than a week with only 50% of the kids in class. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/24 "2008-08-25T00:11:00Z")
My little nephew starts 1st grade tomorrow and the niece does as well (not 1st grade though). As for high-school, I ain’t got a clue. But I’m guessing last week, since traffic took a turn for the worse then. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/25 "2008-08-25T00:40:31Z")
Ugh. I live in a college town, and the damn kids were getting back for college this weekend. Can’t get anywhere around town. Get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/26 "2008-08-25T01:45:18Z")
The first term of the new school year starts here in the last week of January. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/27 "2008-08-25T01:47:47Z")
[QUOTE=Paintcharge] Ugh. I live in a college town, and the damn kids were getting back for college this weekend. Can’t get anywhere around town. Get off my lawn! [/QUOTE] I live near Dickinson College. Their move-in weekend always coincides with the annual Corvette show and parade, and it’s deliberately scheduled this way so parents don’t hang around campus. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/28 "2008-08-25T01:57:16Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan] Not to hijack here but I never understood who thought this was a good idea, having multiple grades in the same classroom. [/QUOTE] Maria Montessori, for one. In the lower grades (1st thru 3rd) it has been great for our sons- they are excelling in all subjects so far. But I have no idea how it might work (or not work!) at higher grade levels. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/29 "2008-08-25T02:33:03Z")
Much too damn early. School should start the day after Labor Day. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/30 "2008-08-25T02:58:36Z")
My kids started on August 6. At least my middle-schooler did–her elementary aged siblings actually only had to be there that day for registration/meet-the-teacher time, which was about an hour for each one. Then they went full time beginning the next day. Seems really early at first, but when you’ve got kids who apparently spend most of their summer honing their bickering skills, suddenly it doesn’t seem early enough! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/31 "2008-08-25T04:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=medstar] How many people wanted to say, “Not soon enough”? 😃 [/QUOTE] I was never a SAHM, so summer was always better for me than school year. Less stress and less running kids here and there. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/32 "2008-08-25T05:19:45Z")
My grandkids started last Tuesday, the 19th. Schools around here are getting earlier and earlier as the years go by. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/33 "2008-08-25T07:12:41Z")
The kids in my county went back 28 July…yeesh…I’m already getting hung up in traffic around the high school and having to watch for school zones. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/34 "2008-08-25T07:22:32Z")
Las Vegas (Clark County to be exact) starts today. However, because of the heat, the school day starts really early here…I believe the first class in high school starts at 7:30 AM! Granted, they get out at about 2:30 or so, but still…good thing I never went to high school here - I would have been late every day! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/35 "2008-08-25T08:33:54Z")
Apparently they go back the 26th. I find that startling: I attended school in this state for 7 years, and we only once went back to school in August, and even then it was the 29th or 30th. School is supposed to start in September! ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/36 "2008-08-25T15:03:50Z")
Today. RIGHT NOW, in fact. My wife is a teacher, and the first class of the year is at 8 AM today. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/37 "2008-08-25T15:18:38Z")
When I was in school in Ontario, it started the day after Labour Day and ended in the first week of June. Apparently schools are starting earlier here as well, but I’m not certain of the details. **Cunctator** , what’s the usual schedule Down Under? Do you do a large lump of summer holidays the way we do? I believe that our near-three-month summer holiday was originally designed so that the kids could work on the farm during the summer. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/38 "2008-08-25T16:46:55Z")
This is just getting me angry. Summer vacation can’t end in August, or god forbit, July. it just can’t. School must start after Labor Day and run no longer then Mid-June. End of debate. Please adjust accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/39 "2008-08-25T17:11:46Z")
I start back to school Sept 2, though my first class isn’t until the 3rd. (On a side note, I’m going to epically fail the math competency. I tried some practice questions and realized that over the last…going on 20 years…I’ve forgotten the little I ever actually learned about algebra. This really sucks) ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102/40 "2008-08-25T17:19:03Z")
I have my first class tonight, and my kids go back to school tomorrow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-school-start-in-your-area/461102.md?page=3)