When exactly do they learn?
We got the schedule home for hot lunches yesterday - they send them about halfway through the month for the upcoming one. I try to choose one hot meal per week to give my daughter a break from her usual lunches and she’s been pretty good about balancing between old favorites and trying something new - for next month she’s having two that she already tried, the pancakes & brown sausages and the chicken brochette, and two that are new to her, the spaghetti & meatballs and the shepherd’s pie (I mean, she’s eaten those before, just not from this caterer).
Anyway, point being, that we got a little calendar with it, which showed me what’s up for March. They have their March break from March 3rd to March 7th, then they have a ped day on March 21st AND 24th, and another on April 4th.
I know we blur our memories as we get older, but I honestly do not remember that many days off from school. I remember having a March break, actual holidays like Easter and Thanksgiving, Christmas break, and an occasional ped day, but I’m positive we didn’t have one or two ped days each and every month like my daughter has had since starting school. It’s crazy.
Is this a new trend? I mean, I love having her home too (and you know, sleeping in instead of getting up at 6:30) but it seems they have an awful lot of days off!
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1 opinion for When exactly do they learn?
Lill
Feb 20, 2008 at 10:19 am
I’m clueless. What’s a ped day? My kids are unschoolers and learn all the time, so I’m not up on what schools are doing nowadays.
I do remember starting school later - after Labor Day - and getting out later - at the end of June, when I went to school back in the 60’s. And I don’t remember getting so many breaks, just spring, xmas and a couple holidays like President’s Days. (We still had both Washington’s and Lincoln’s then.)
It must make it harder for the kids to learn what schools teach, especially the way they teach things, and harder yet to schedule your life around the school’s schedule. I couldn’t put up with it.
Shine On,
Lill
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