When does the ps near you start this year?

[Homeschooling6]

I think around here it's Aug. 23 (don't have a calendar near the desk) but I'm not starting until Sept. I need a break and rest and time to file :D

[sassenach]

My kids are split between 2 districts. One starts 8/19, the other starts 8/24.

[Veritaserum]

Aug. 23rd (Mon.)

 

We've already started some things because my kids have been begging to do school. :)

 

Where I grew up, school always started the day after Labor Day.

[AngieW in Texas]

Monday, August 23rd

[AHASRADA]

August 30th (not that I care) :glare: :lol:.

[NicA]

The schools in my city started July 26. I don't mind it though, since it is so much nicer to shop and go to museums and the library without all of the extra people around. :001_smile:

[~Kirsten~]

Ours starts August 30, which seems to fall in between most schools elsewhere. We school year-round and started our new history and science in June, so the main reason I care about the official start date is for our not-back-to-school park day/picnic. :D I think we might get to have two this year!

[Guest aquiverfull]

They started yesterday on the 6th. :D

Ours did too.

[Researcher]

Tomorrow for the local PS. Some areas near us started last week though.

 

We won't start until the 23rd. I'm still planning and want a chance to use the laminator at the school supply store while everyone else is gone. :laugh:

[KrissiK]

Around here - The local Christian school starts on the 10th, my small town starts on the 23, the neighboring town starts on the 18th. We started homeschool last Wednesday.

[bugaboo]

Public schools start August 20th here. We started last week. I am so glad my daughter talked me into starting last week. It has been too hot outside to do anything!

[Mom2boys]

Our local schools start on Thursday, the 19th. :confused:

 

We are starting on Monday, the 16th, because starting on a Thursday seems silly to me.

[MorganClassicalPrep]

Our local schools start on the 30th for elementary, 6th, and 9th grades, and the 31st for everyone else. Kinda makes sense to me, with the 6th and 9th graders being in a new school and moving around to classes, it must be nice for them to get a day in before the whole school is packed.

 

Not soon enough for me! I'm ready to take DD to the park and other play areas without being overrun by unsupervised, badly behaved children!

[dani3boys]

Ours starts on September 7th. MN public schools are not allowed to start before Labor Day anymore.

[Joyofsixreboot]

Ours start Aug 12, a Thursday. The school says it's to give the teachers time to pass out books an explain rules and then hit the ground running on Mon.

[fairytalemama]

...we have a really crazy situation in our district. We start on 9/7 with a half day in the morning. Then a full day on 9/8, but then have 9/9 and 9/10 off for Ramadan. There's a sizable Muslim population in our town so they shut down those days so they don't count towards attendance for funding purposes (most parents wouldn't have their kids go to school on those days if school was open).

[GoVanGogh]

 

MN public schools are not allowed to start before Labor Day anymore.

Our state passed a similar law a few years ago, but they allowed individual districts to file a petition for an earlier start date. So our local school starts August 23rd. Like all of the other schools in this area.

[AlaskaGrownFamily]

Ours starts 8/18 for 2nd grade and up, 8/24 for K/1.

[EKS]

September 1st. They're early this year.

[EKS]

That's a long year. Do you get a lot of snow? Or have lots of vacations or something?

[woolybear]

We start on August 11. They schedule it so that the school year will be half over by Christmas break. We are done with school before Memorial Day.

 

 

I hadn't even thought about that, but I like the sound of it. We are starting on Aug. 23rd and I went back and looked over the calendar. With a few small adjustments we can be halfway through the year by Christmas break too! Yay! Thank you.

[Moniksca]

We always start the day after labour day here as well, Sept 7.

[violinmom]

Our local district does a year-round type schedule. They actually started back July 26th. We are starting Aug. 16th. When I was growing up we started around the 3rd week of Aug and ended before Memorial Day.

[bbsweetpea]

Ours starts the 24th it looks like. Most of the school districts around us start on the 23rd though.

 

I am starting on the 16th so that we can finish before Memorial Day.

[Guest CarolineUK]

Thursday, 2 September - the schools here didn't stop for the summer break until 23 July though, much too late I think, summer feels almost over already.