chh
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Just reminding everyone it is that time of year again.
Most local schools here are starting this week.That time of year!
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Just reminding everyone it is that time of year again.
Most local schools here are starting this week.
Bird
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A good reminder, but schools here won't start until the 24th or 25th. But yes, we hope no one forgets and gets a speeding ticket, or even worse hits a kid.
RobertN
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Ya, my son started Monday at 0745. What happened to after Labor Day
mnbowhunter1960
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We don't start here in our city in Mn until Sept 6th. but yes a very good reminder.
Bird
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Ya, my son started Monday at 0745. What happened to after Labor Day
Yep, I grew up thinking school was supposed to start the day after Labor Day, but it kept getting earlier and earlier until, several years ago, Texas enacted a law that prohibited a school from starting earlier than the Monday of the week in which August 25 falls. But it allowed schools to request an exemption, and all exemptions were automatically approved.
So that law meant nothing at all. More recently, they amended it to make it a little more difficult so I think they're all waiting now.
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chh
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Oklahoma has changed the number of days/classroom hours, so everybody has to start earlier, run later, or make the schoolday longer. Add to that the ice storms in recent years that have played havoc with everything, schools are back to trying to add in "weather days"..........
in recent years that have played havoc with everything, schools are back to trying to add in "weather days"..........
Matt_Jr
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Why is it that traffic gets worse during the school year? It doesn't have anything to do with busses 'cause I rarely see any. And while I'm at it, what's with the laws and amendments and more laws and...ah.. nevermind.
Oh, and thanks for the warning chh. Don't forget to watch out for the teens. The younger ones seem to have enough sense to not jump out in front of a car, but teenagers.....
Oh, and thanks for the warning chh. Don't forget to watch out for the teens. The younger ones seem to have enough sense to not jump out in front of a car, but teenagers.....
ronjhall
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No school in Michigan until after Labor Day. But week before school opens buses will be out doing practice runs.
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Most of Georgia, especially around Atlanta started early this week..........The extra traffic is from drop off parents that really dont care for their kids waiting for the bus down at the end of a lonely road in the dark, nor being dropped off just down the road from a ****** predator.......In addition, have you checked out how many vehicles are in your local high school parking lot?................
Just thoughts.........Dennis
Just thoughts.........Dennis
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If you want schools to start after Labor Day, just shut off the air conditioning. It seems that I remember it being nearly impossible to keep a class full of kids awake after lunch when it was hot. I suspect many TBNers never had any A/C in their schools. I graduated in 1966 and my high school only had A/C in the auditorium, cafeteria, and band/orchestra/choir practice halls. Classrooms had fans if we were lucky. No other school that I attended had any A/C. I'll bet there are plenty of others here who had similar experiences.
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None of our schools nor buses had AC, but we didn't at home either. We would go to the drug store and the movie theatre because they did.
When we moved back to the country when I was in 4th grade, we had coal stoves and outdoor toilets. We did have a water fountain, but can't remember if it worked in the winter or not at the school.
Later all, heading on a cruise Sunday. Going to Jamaica, The Caymans, and Cozumel. Hope one of those depressions doesn't become a hurricane before we get by there.
When we moved back to the country when I was in 4th grade, we had coal stoves and outdoor toilets. We did have a water fountain, but can't remember if it worked in the winter or not at the school.
Later all, heading on a cruise Sunday. Going to Jamaica, The Caymans, and Cozumel. Hope one of those depressions doesn't become a hurricane before we get by there.
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I graduated in 1958 and never went to a school that had air-conditioning at all. And as with many of you, we didn't have air-conditioning in our home or in Dad's businesses, either.
We never had a coal stove, but we did burn kerosene in what was supposed to be a wood burning stove, then later had butane for both heating and cooking. And of course, an outhouse instead of a bathroom until I was about 12 or 13.
We never had a coal stove, but we did burn kerosene in what was supposed to be a wood burning stove, then later had butane for both heating and cooking. And of course, an outhouse instead of a bathroom until I was about 12 or 13.
Patriotic Stabilist
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I was a freshmen in high school before we had a bathtub and inside commode. That was 1960.
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Hey PS. . . have a nice cruise and return safely.
I guess we've hijacked the OP's original intent of this thread, so I'll just say I'll be lookin' out for big yellow air conditioned and non-air conditioned school buses. I think school starts here around the 24th. Around here, many school buses have those white strobelights. You can see a school bus long before you can ever see the color or shape of the bus. Actually, you can't be too certain it's a school bus. It depends on the day of the week. There are three important things that have those strobes: School buses, postal carriers, and garbage trucks.
And to continue the hijack. . . I think we got indoor plumbing in 1957. After that, every winter we crawled under the house to wrap the pipes in newspaper. We tied the newspapers onto the pipes with strips of rag torn from old sheets and tied together. Of course, that didn't stop the pipes from freezing and bursting, so we would crawl back under the house and fix a leak by wrapping the pipe with strips of tire inner tube and use hose clamps. I think by the time I got married and moved out, there must have been at least 25 repairs of that type under that house.
I guess we've hijacked the OP's original intent of this thread, so I'll just say I'll be lookin' out for big yellow air conditioned and non-air conditioned school buses. I think school starts here around the 24th. Around here, many school buses have those white strobelights. You can see a school bus long before you can ever see the color or shape of the bus. Actually, you can't be too certain it's a school bus. It depends on the day of the week. There are three important things that have those strobes: School buses, postal carriers, and garbage trucks.
And to continue the hijack. . . I think we got indoor plumbing in 1957. After that, every winter we crawled under the house to wrap the pipes in newspaper. We tied the newspapers onto the pipes with strips of rag torn from old sheets and tied together. Of course, that didn't stop the pipes from freezing and bursting, so we would crawl back under the house and fix a leak by wrapping the pipe with strips of tire inner tube and use hose clamps. I think by the time I got married and moved out, there must have been at least 25 repairs of that type under that house.
JohnDeere4300
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Just reminding everyone it is that time of year again.
This makes the fourth year that we have been homeschooling our two children, and we started them back Monday.
This happened yesterday in a County close to us.
School Bus Accident Sends 4 to Hospital
chrisdvorak
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Just reminding everyone it is that time of year again.
schools don't start here until the 1st
School buses are the safest transportation. Most school bus fatalities are caused by driver error when the student is not on the bus. The driver gets distracted as a kid is getting off and loses track of where the child is and drives on. Meanwhile the child has reached under the bus to get something they dropped.
I'm not saying this because I'm a school bus driver, but this is a tough job especially for the less experienced driver. Do I watch the students to make sure they're behaving or watch the road? Do I assume that the car coming towards me will stop? Its a very routine job loaded with life threatening possibilities.
Bird
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I drove a school bus for the 1960-61 school year and fortunately had no accidents. However, one of the drivers stopped for a railroad crossing, then went on, and didn't know until the police stopped him some 5 miles or so down the road that when he stopped for the railroad crossing, a pickup truck rear ended him hard enought to damage the pickup enough to completely disable it. The bus driver said the kids were so rambunctious that he just thought it was them jumping up and down.
