“Day in day out, week in week out, year in year out … you trudge off to this room crammed to the brim with bird’s nests, flash cards, trilobites, pilgrim hats, Indian headdresses, drawings and paintings in which the proportion of the head to the body is never right, but looks for all the world like an exhibit by demented Fauvists with no drawing skills whatsoever and a very garish color sense. Twice a day, everybody in this room is let out. Is it any wonder they run screaming into the sunshine?”
And now we know why ADD is prevalent in schools.
Gee...
What’s noticeably ABSENT from the picture of the kids running:
A young white boy.
Interesting...
So summer is chronologically three months, roughly June 20 to September 20th. But school starts early Aug to early September cutting out two to four of the ~12 weeks of summer.
Being out of school for decades has not relieved me of this psychological event making summer artificially short, but I am finding that reminding myself of the “extra” weeks outside the school “summer” has its benefits as well.
And the last couple weeks of chronological summer can be the best of the year. Still warm, no kids as they are all in school, and still fall is beautiful as well in northern MI.