Decatur Police Remind Us It’s Back to To School Time
Michelle Cavaliere | July 26, 2016 | 2:15 pm
The Decatur Police Department sent out this reminder…
CSD students are headed back to school next Monday, August 1st. There will be more traffic to include vehicles, buses and big & little pedestrians and cyclists on main roads and neighborhood streets. Please plan on allowing more time for your commute and PLEASE slow down and pay extra attention as excited students head back to class. We will have additional officers on duty in and around the school zones to remind everyone school is back in session.
Reduced speeds for school zones are indicated by either flashing lights and/or signage with the times for the school zone posted. Flashing lights are not required or posted for every school zone. You must also obey the times indicated by signage posted for school zones.
Atlanta Public Schools will also start back Wednesday, August 3rd and DeKalb County Schools start back Monday, August 8th.
Makes me appreciate how when I was a kid we didn’t go back till September. I wonder what effect having not much of a summer has on a child. Probably, not good, not having camp, &, feeling the freedom of summer.
i’m pretty sure that, academically at least, shorter summers are a good thing.
And it’s so frickin hot in August that the kids would just be inside in front of screens.
I don’t think the summers are necessarily any shorter than in the good old days. They end earlier but they also start earlier. No way can the State or local school districts afford a longer school year. But it sure is odd for anyone who grew up where school didn’t start until after Labor Day. And it makes it hard to have reunions and shared vacations with family in the North or West. It also messes up sleep-away camp options, even for camps in North Carolina. Not to mention summer internship or travel program options.
For a long while, I complained about how silly it was to rotate the school year counterclockwise and not actually add on any extra instruction and learning. But then it was explained to me that it’s all about the timing of standardized content-based testing, e.g. whatever they call the GRCT now and end-of-course tests, plus AP and IB tests, and even the ACT and the SAT Subject Tests. (Not so much the regular SAT which is more about general skills/ability than specific subject matter.) Schools and teachers want to cover as much of the material as possible before the spring testing.
My kids get camp and time at home just 30 days less of it but thanks to the other week long breaks throughout the year they also get a beach trip in September and a ski trip in feb. so don’t cry for them. While as a kid I went back to school in September as well we did not get out until June.
We didn’t go back until September either but we didn’t get out until June 20th or so–and didn’t have weeks in September and Feb off either. CSD’s summer vacation starts before Memorial Day usually. Personally, I like that there is no school in June–much better month than hot, miserable August.