Something about the month of October causes otherwise normal schools to just up and not conduct school on a regular basis this month. While we weren't off on Columbus Day, I present the following evidence that this month's Tuition-To- Learning Ratio is gonna be way off:
October 19 - Busy Girl and Boy both have field trips
October 20 - Busy Girl has yet another field trip (OK, maybe there's a little learning going on, but whatever)
October 21st and 24th - Fall Break (*insert Crotchety Old Man voice here* We never had a Fall Break when I was growing up and we liked it.)
October 27 - Half day
October 28 - Half day for the older kids, complete day off for The Preschooler Formerly Known as Busy Baby
November 1st - No school
I mean, what if Busy Girl forgets how to conjugate verbs in Spanish during these discarded hours? What if Busy Boy falls behind on his division facts? What if The Preschooler Formerly Known as Busy Baby can't use the quadratic formula anymore? When they do actually have school on a regular basis, they will have to backtrack and review all this stuff and that time can never be regained. What price, lost knowledge? That, and just think how popular the other mother who works and I are with our respective employers this month. My available vacation hours are lower than "Chaotic" 's Nielsen ratings.
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Thanks to public education, while my boys were growing up I NEVER had vacation hours for a real vacation. I was always amazed at the number of hours other people were able to accummulate.
It is surely to only get busier. In just a few weeks, it will be Thanksgiving break, then Christmas Holidays for 2 weeks.
I feel your pain.
Hey, my son learned something on his field trip last friday to the Pumpkin Patch. That getting too close to ostriches over in the pen they were told not to go near is a REALLY BAD idea! That's a quality education right there! And it's knowlege no one can take from him.
We only had one half-day, they call it Minimum Day here.
What's up with Fall Break? The kids now a days have it easy. :)
I got back to your blog by looking up my own name on the internet. isn't that weird?
We just did away with the famous "fall" and "winter" breaks here - a week off at a time along with the take-it-away-and-die Spring Break. As it is, we start school mid-August and get out the end of May. Parents were told we could reinstate the breaks, but we'd go until mid-June. In Schlitterbahn-world, that ain't a cool thang!
The answer is...
FLASH CARDS
(Of course that was the answer for my parents.)
Amen, sister! When I was working, I used ALL of my vacation for kids' off-of-school days. Don't they realize they're screwing up our lives?!
My husband and I try to split up all the holidays/days off. I usually "work from home" on those days. I only have one child, so it's manageable.
I always think that daycare should discount for the random days that they are closed. Wonder what they would think of that suggestion?