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I’m with the kids on this one: “Wa-a-ay too soon.”*
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All three head back to school on August 20th this year. Excuse me, but that’s a pretty big step over the edge of September into sacred Summer! I can forgive (and ignore) the store displays of school supplies in June. I can overlook the extensive summer e-mailings with “vital” information regarding the upcoming school year. But, the school bus pulling up front of our house in a moderately stretched week will be a little harder to ignore…
I’m sure there’s a good reason for the ever-expanding August creep; I’ll have to ask my elementary teacher sister for the inside story on that, but from present vantage point it still feels like an outright theft of summer.
I don’t buy the arguments in favor of “year-round” school. I understand many of the economical, environmental and educational reasons, but I still view summer as the ultimate “alternative learning” experience. And I hate to surrender even a day of it…
Last night, Matt, his friend and I walked Lily as Hannah practiced on a soccer field. An hour and a half of walking, talking, and eventually, ice cream cones for the return trip… We covered a few miles and a lot of interesting topics in that ninety minutes. Sports, travel, a bit of math here and there as we calculated time, distances and how far my spare change would carry us on the ice cream cones… We watched geese instinctively swim to the middle of a pond at Lily’s eager approach. Figured out how a rock’s weight impacts the distance it can be thrown… with proper field-testing, of course… There was a little bit about outer space, a little more about Sponge Bob and a lot of good physical exercise. Just an ordinary summer evening.
Yep. The kids are right.
Wa-a-ay too soon…
August 19, 2008 |
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trysh, Crafting August 19, 2008 9:54 am
I agree!
I love how you take such a simple thing as a walk and turn it into the kind of education that will never be able to be put in a classroom! We all need more of that!
Love the pictures too!
Don’t have any school-age kids home any more….but I’m trying to hang on to summer with ya!