Comments on: Weekly Roundup – Back to the Grind Edition

By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:29:17 +0000

When I was a little kid going to school in an American colony overseas, we had year-round school: three months on and one month off. This probably was because our fathers’ long leaves were a month long, so the three on-one off schedule made it possible for families to plan stateside or European vacations at times other than the summer.

In terms of what it did for our education: Over the vacation we did forget a little of what we’d learned, but not much. I can imagine if you were out of grade school for three months, you’d blow off a lot of alleged learning. Before we came home, I was sick and out of school for about six months, but testing showed I was still over a year ahead of my grade level. In the overseas school I was a mediocre student; in San Francisco I instantly morphed into an A student.

Part of it was because I hated school when we lived overseas…I’d have had a nervous breakdown if I’d had to stay in that place for nine uninterrupted months. Ugh!

Sending kids back to school in August, while it’s still hotter than a two-dollar cookstove, doesn’t make much sense if you’re going to let them out the first part of May — they still have three full months in which to forget everything they were learning.

By: nickel

nickel — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:47:04 +0000

Yeah, early May.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:37:27 +0000

When do your kids get out of school? Early May?

I’ll be a junior and we don’t go back until August 27th…we get out June 4th.

By: PCU

PCU — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:46:55 +0000

Thanks for the link to the Twitter users. I’ve been using it myself. Also we’ve been noticing the “get less, pay the same marketing technique” locally as well. We’ve switched brands on a few things just to stay at the same price/volume we could get a few months ago. It’s an interesting thing to check up on next time you’re buying your groceries…