Last Day Summer

Time flies in summer for teachers. August 18 is the first day back from summer break in Chesterfield, VA schools. That makes Friday the last workday off from school before I have to wake up at 5 in the morning daily. I miss the money and the people, but I don't miss the stress. I wrote several articles for the school newspaper in high school saying I wished all schools would have year-round school. As a grown up I also wish they would go year-round with a couple weeks of break. Students need massive schoolwork reviews after the summer break, students act bad before and after the break, teachers lack summer pay, teachers often need extra summer jobs, summer daycare is expensive for parents, and worst of all is the shock to the system of sleeping late before going back to early school. European schools only have a short break for summer then their students have better scores for University. Maybe someday a good system will become normal in the USA. Meanwhile I will soon miss sleeping.

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