You probably don't need to be reminded, but it's the first day of school for most students in Lincoln. Sophomores through seniors are still on the loose, but most everybody else will be in class today. Want to melt your brain a bit? Consider that a few kids will probably show up to their schools today despite the fact that their schools have never heard of them. Their parents will not have bothered to contact anyone. And there's a good chance some parents don't know that school starts today, so who knows when their kids will show up. Oh the stories I've heard from LPS employees...
This year's August 19 start seems really early to me. That's just fine. Now that every school is air conditioned -- finally! -- the "we can't start too early because of the heat" argument is weakened. I would love to see the day when LPS finishes first semester before Christmas and second semester wraps up in May.
Come to think of it, I made it through my years at LPS with two years of air conditioning: fifth and sixth grade at Calvert. Ahh, those were pleasant years. Now I hear even the band room at Southeast is air conditioned. Bah. Back in my day we sweated like pigs and we liked it! Well, no, actually it was miserable. At least the portables were pleasant.
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177 kindergarteners and more than half that many parents in the gym at Roper today. The circus has come to town!
That’s darn near the same number that started at Maxey. I foresee more portables showing up within 2 years. Excellent forward thinking on that last bond issue…
I would love to be a school administrator when someone shows up today just wondering where they should be, having no Earthly idea who they are or why they are in my school.
As a first year teacher at a neighboring school district that happened to start on the same day as LPS, I also don’t understand why they can’t get done with first semester before Christmas.
They seem so reluctant to get rid of the weeklong break in October. One day will suffice and it gives a longer summer. Not to mention the irony of testing a student over a semester’s worth of information…after they’ve had a week to forget it all, and expecting them to have good test scores…
Okay. Rant over.
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