School Start date poll

[DawnM]

What day do you kids start school?

 

In your response, please specify what kind of school (PS, Private, College, homeschool)

 

Just a random poll everyone can answer.

Edited July 11, 2017 by DawnM

[regentrude]

3 colleges here.

I start August 21.

DS has orientation Aug 23-27 and starts Aug 28.

DD is on the quarter system and starts Sept 25. WAY after Labor Day.

Edited July 10, 2017 by regentrude

[Arcadia]

Aug 16th, same day as the district. It is not in the poll options. We start homeschooling same time every year with the district for convenience since library summer activities follow district calendars.

[HomeAgain]

Homeschool, we're starting Labor Day weekend.  Don't feel bad for the kid. ;) Our schedule shifted because of the insanely crowded weekends here, so we get to enjoy the quiet middle of the week as a family downtime.

[DawnM]

College boy starts Aug. 16

PS boys start Aug. 28

I start Aug. 9

[Sneezyone]

Public/Private international school and we start on a Sunday in this part of the world.

[Noreen Claire]

Homeschool here. We start after the holiday, following the public school calendar, because DH is a public school teacher

[DawnM]

I think my oldest starts college on the 14th.  For my younger kids, we are doing a light summer schedule that I will be gradually easing into a full schedule starting later this month.  So, no "official" start date. 

 

 

I actually used to do year round, with our official start date July 1st and end date June 30th, with various weeks off during the year.  Guess I should add that to the poll too.

[MaeFlowers]

I am planning to start homeschool on July 31st. The public schools start on Aug 1st.

 

We usually start earlier but I am way behind on planning this year. I still need to order some things...

[historically accurate]

Oldest's dual enrollment begin Aug 21. 

 

Homeschool may begin after Labor Day; I'm just not ready AT ALL this year. Maybe we'll start on a slow-release schedule after next week. Math, then add other things slowly. So, all that to say, I don't know...

 

 

[Pawz4me]

The boys' first day of classes is August 22 (different universities).

[Word Nerd]

I think it's Aug. 15 here—or sometime that week.

[Roadrunner]

August 1st. We usually stop earlier than others. Homeschool.

Edited July 10, 2017 by Roadrunner

[mom2scouts]

We're starting our homeschool year on August 21. We used to start the same week as the public schools and sometimes a few days earlier than PS, but they keep moving their start date earlier and earlier to better fit standardized testing dates. The PS starts the week before us now, but ds has an awesome opportunity that week to volunteer at an event directly related to his major interest. Homeschool win!

[BarbecueMom]

Homeschool. Start date is the first Monday after the 4th of July, so today. We do five weeks on and one or two weeks off, year round.

 

It's too hot, humid, and crowded at all the fun places. DH is too busy at work to travel, and our friends are all out of town. Might as well get a jump on school work.

[mykidsrmyjoy]

We're trying out a new 4 day per week homeschool schedule and starting earlier than we usually do to be able to get our mandatory 160 days in. July 17 is our official start date.

[wendyroo]

We more of less school year round, with only a short summer break.  We took off most of June, but in the last couple weeks we have been struggling with too much free time and not enough structure.  Things were getting wild and wooly around here, and it was time to get back onto a school routine.

 

My two younger boys are in zoo camp 4 mornings this week, so I am taking advantage of that time to shepherd my oldest through his first week of school when I can give him a lot of my attention; today was is first day, and it went well.  Next week, #1 won't need quite as much focused attention, so I will be able to shift to getting #2 used to his new school subjects.

 

Later this summer we will take off a week to go visit my parents and a week to go camping, but otherwise we will stick to our school routine.

 

Wendy

[Soror]

We start the first weekday July 1st or later and have for a few years(as according to dept. of education for our state the school year is from July 1 to June 30th). This year this was on Monday July 3rd. I prefer to do school in the blazing hot summer and finish by the beginning of spring.

 

The local school starts in mid-August.

[slackermom]

Aug 30, 8th grade, going to an out of district public school

Our local district goes back Sep 7, so I expect to hear some minor grumbling for a bit

[Crimson Wife]

Community College DE courses for my oldest 8/14

Virtual Charter for my DS 8/16

PS for my youngest 8/21

College elective I'm registered for 8/28

 

One of my sorority sisters posted that her daughters' first day of PS is TODAY. That seems insanely early to me!

[mommyoffive]

We homeschool and we do it year round.

 

Also in a charter that starts Sept 1st

[mommyoffive]

Community College DE courses for my oldest 8/14

Virtual Charter for my DS 8/16

PS for my youngest 8/21

College elective I'm registered for 8/28

 

One of my sorority sisters posted that her daughters' first day of PS is TODAY. That seems insanely early to me!

 

wow.

 

I have seen things move up over the last few years but this is early.  What part of the country is that?  

 

Are school years getting longer? 

[Library Momma]

PS here starts August 28th

[Heather in OK]

My oldest two start community college on 8/21.

I'll start home school with my youngest two on 8/7....probably.   I'm not ready for summer to be over. 

[tdbates78]

We are starting August 7th, 3 weeks before public school returns in our county. Its too hot to enjoy the summer anyways, so we will take extra time off in the fall and spring instead.

[Rebel Yell]

College starts the week of Aug 20

Beauty school starts second Monday in Sept

General homeschooling/enrichment classes for my Junior begin the day after Labor Day, but I do count all summer activities and adventures as "school time" and the state dept. ed says our "year" is July 1 - June 30

[jrn]

private high school august 17

public middle school Sept 5 

[DawnM]

Community College DE courses for my oldest 8/14

Virtual Charter for my DS 8/16

PS for my youngest 8/21

College elective I'm registered for 8/28

 

One of my sorority sisters posted that her daughters' first day of PS is TODAY. That seems insanely early to me!

 

 

Is this some sort of year round school?  

[DawnM]

wow.

 

I have seen things move up over the last few years but this is early.  What part of the country is that?  

 

Are school years getting longer? 

 

My guess is that they get weeks off periodically throughout the year.  I haven't heard of PS going more than 185 days, but I am not familiar with the entire country.

 

Here is an example of a school district with several different weeks off throughout the year:

 

https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/104/Approved_CALENDAR_2017-18.pdf

Edited July 10, 2017 by DawnM

[Seasider]

We started back this week, gentle entry. Well, as gentle as Algebra gets.

 

ETA Our outsourced classes/activities generally start again about the third week of August, same time as my college kids.

Edited July 10, 2017 by Seasider

[MeaganS]

We go year round. Usually our official start date would have been some time in the first week of July, but we recently moved and are just settling down. Our official first day of school is going to be next week.

[mamaraby]

We do math and piano during the summer except when the kids are traveling. Our first day this year is July 30. We homeschool and do not follow a M-F school week.

[PinkTulip]

PS kids start Aug. 21 and college kid starts Sept. 5. But I make all the PS kids do Kahn Academy and read/ACT prep for at least 60 minutes total per day all summer

[MEmama]

Public high school. Day after Labor Day.

[Loowit]

Homeschool.  The two oldest will start August 28, and youngest will start two weeks later.  He will have two less weeks than the olders this year, and it give me some time to focus on my middle child who is doing his first year of high school.

[Violet Crown]

Resumed homeschooling today.

[Crimson Wife]

wow.

 

I have seen things move up over the last few years but this is early.  What part of the country is that?  

 

Are school years getting longer? 

 

She just moved and I think she's somewhere in NC now.

 

[desertstrawberry5]

today! 

 

We start after summer library program ends. That was last week. i'm feeling super zesty after convention and ready to start, so we did. we are homeschooling everyone.

[purpleowl]

We are year-round homeschoolers. 

 

The public schools here start back August 14; the private school where I used to teach starts August 11. I usually pick a date around there to say "hey, now you're in Nth grade--let's take pictures of you!"

[Elizabeth86]

We are starting homeschool August 1st, but I dont thin we will go all in right away. While we still have nice weather we are just doing math and language arts 3 or 4 days a week and pick up more subjects and days as the weather turns cold in November.

[SporkUK]

Year round here. We tend to continue through most of the summer while it's too hot to enjoy much outside. We're taking this week off to go visit their grandmother, and we usually take a week or two off at the beginning of August for my and M's birthday and the older two to go to camp and at least a few day's at the beginning of September for O's birthday.

 

The official year switchover is 6th of September this year following when council-run state schools go back.  I'm not yet planning much to mark it...my eldest is making some since it's around his birthday and is already talking about how that will mean two years until he can go to the technical school with a mix of excitement and wanting to make sure we do all the things now he won't be able to do then..

[Night Elf]

I do not have school aged children anymore but wanted to add my vote for how we did homeschool. We were always year round. We took off whenever we liked and definitely preferred that to a public school schedule. The only thing we did that was influenced by public school's start date was our Not Back To School meal out.

[LMD]

We usually start in the last week of January- homeschool. We do CM style terms, 3x12 weeks with a mid term break, so similar to 6 weeks on, one week off. We try to finish up in late Nov.

 

Schools here usually start around the same time (late Jan/early Feb) and run until early Dec, 4 terms of between 8-12 weeks each, with 3x2 week holidays around easter, early July, and Oct, and 6 weeks off over Christmas in the summer.

[LarlaB]

August 16- Public/charter school

 

When we home schooled (and if we start again) we keep the district start date. It made many things much simpler 😜

[Miss Tick]

Homeschool. I voted for our official start date, but we will get a head start on a few things the week or two before.

 

I have to be careful because we go after our official end date to finish up things at the beginning of summer, and we start some things early at the end of summer. It seems possible that if I take my eyes off vacation it could disappear all together and then things would fall to pieces.

 

Looks like we will have a three day jump on the local public school.

[rebcoola]

Our ALE starts Aug 28 we usually ramp up a bit before than to get a head start. But this year we are probably moving in August.

[Guest]

Homeschool = year round

 

College 1 = August 21

College 2 = August 23

College 3 = August 28

College 4 = August 23

[gardenmom5]

public school

college

[Melissa in Australia]

You left out other. This sourthen hemisphere boardie is sad about not being able to vote 😢

[ashfern]

My 15 yo is going to the public high school this year. They start on Aug 1st. The rest of us still at home will start around the 15th.