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When does school year start?
When does school year finish?
What are the school hours?
What holidays do you have? Start and finish?
What grades are in your Elementary schools? (is that what ya call junior?)
What grades are in your High schools?
Do all US states have the same above things?
How old are children when they start school?
Do you have Kindergarten or Preschool?

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In my district in Florida typically


When does school year start? Early to Mid August
When does school year finish? End of May
What are the school hours? vary drastically from school to school. In my district we have a staggered schedule my school is 7:50-2:10 but my son goes 9-3:30
What holidays do you have? every 9 weeks the students get a day off. They get a week in March and about 2 in Decemeber. Start and finish?
What grades are in your Elementary schools? (is that what ya call junior? JR is 6-8) PreK-5
What grades are in your High schools? 9-12
Do all US states have the same above things? no in fact things are different in each district in each state
How old are children when they start school? K-5 but PreK 3 and all children must attend by 6
Do you have Kindergarten or Preschool? yes both but not all schools have PreK

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New Hampshire is different than any place I've ever lived.

When does school year start? Last year, they started right after Labor Day, the first Monday in September.

When does school year finish? With the four or five snow days we've had, estimated last day is June 21st. Freaking late, in my opinion. As in Iowa but contrary to my childhood in Kentucky, schools here do not have air conditioning.

What are the school hours? My children, in first and third grade, go to school from 8:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. They also attend before-school care at the elementary itself, since I have to be at work before that time. It's run separately from the school and is fee-based.

What holidays do you have? My children have Columbus Day (October), Thanksgiving and the day after (November), about a week right around Christmas/New Year's in December, Civil Rights Day (January), a week at the end of February, a week at the end of April, and Memorial Day. They also have teacher workshop days every six weeks or so, and they were out two days in November for parent-teacher conferences.

What grades are in your Elementary schools? (is that what ya call junior?) Elementary schools here run 1-5. Middle school is 6-8, and high school is 9-12. My town, though, does not have a public high school. Instead, it and a few smaller, surrounding towns pay tax money to a private academy here in town that is held in high regard. Kinda cool, really.

Do all US states have the same above things? As Lil said, nope. Schools in Iowa were much more similar to what I grew up in Kentucky with, but still had some differences.

How old are children when they start school? Do you have Kindergarten or Preschool? My town is one of 20 left in the nation, I've been told, without mandatory kindergarten. If a child attends kindergarten here (and, btw, the other 19 are apparently all in New Hampshire as well), his or her parents pay tuition that rivals in-state college tuition to go. There are some public programs for kindergarten and pre-K here, but the slots are limited and are based either on financial need or on a special-needs basis. Even then, kindergarten is half-day.

Fortunately, my children were out of kindergarten before we moved here. My son and daughter both attended public kindergarten in Iowa on a full-day basis. In addition, my daughter attended two years of public preschool in one of the districts in which we lived in Iowa.

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Now in East Tx we are a bit different than other TX schools...
When does school year start?
Early to Mid August

When does school year finish?
Usually the last of June

What are the school hours?
We go from 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

What holidays do you have? Start and finish?
Sept 5-Labor Day
Nov 23-25-Thanksgiving
Dec 21-Jan3- Christmas holidays
Mar 13-17-Spring Break
Then there are a few days for Teacher Workdays and Bad Weather days too.

What grades are in your Elementary schools? (is that what ya call junior?)
Pre-K (not mandatory)-5 grade=Elementary
6-8 grades=Junior High


What grades are in your High schools?
9-12 grades= High School

Do all US states have the same above things?
No, Each district in each state have their own schedules but the grades are similar. The only difference is pre k.

How old are children when they start school?
Pre K here is 4 yrs of age by August 1. But to start kindergarden they must be 5 yrs old.

Do you have Kindergarten or Preschool?
This school district has a voluntary pre-k. You sign up and they go type thing. Kindergarten is mandatory. You can send your child to a Preschool of your choosing if you want to pay for it. But all you have to do at this district is purchase the supplies. But it goes for only half a day.

Here is our school districts web site if you want to look at that.
http://crossroadsisd.org/

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I find it interesting that your school year starts so late in the year.....ours start in Febuary and finish in December

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I think that's because your seasons are the opposite from ours

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Absolutely true...the tradition of summer vacation for US schools began in the old days, when children were more valued as farm hands than anything else...


Actually, it's been pointed out before that our New Year really begins in the fall, i.e., school semesters, new car models, TV seasons...

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Wow! I'm surprised that some places in the US start school in mid-August. We always started school the day after Labour Day.

That's the way it used to be here...& the trend to starting earlier & earlier each year that goes by has been something of a source of consternation to parents throughout the state as it gets a little more uphill trying to plan a family vacation...

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For us it is all FCAT/Sat10 based. We are beiginning the year earlier and earlier to have more time to prepare students for these ridiculous tests. The problem this causes is that students finish the year early and won't know if they passed to the next grade til mid summer due to the untimeliness of these testing companies' reporting procedures.

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Here in the northeast, I gather that the timing of school is mostly based on the weather. As I stated before, most schools do not have air conditioning--thus, starting after Labor Day makes practical sense. However, because, in the northeast, children have an extra "break" week (February), added to the likelihood of at least SOME snow days, we end up with kids still in classrooms until mid- to late-June.

In Iowa, my children started school roughly the same time as I did, growing up in Kentucky: around the 23rd, 24th of August. It made it rough, though, as Iowa schools usually do not have air conditioning, either, and temperatures can still be quite warm at that time.

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Only schools in the top end have air con here...so most public schools do not have air con.....kids are often going to school in summer on 36-40C (or more)..

Snow days? So if it snows and they cant get to school, they add days to the school year?

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Yes. In each district I've been involved in, there are 180 instructional days mandated. The school calendar is set; if there are days where, due to the weather, school is cancelled, those days have to be made up, either at the end of the school year, during a day already set aside for break, holiday, or teacher workshop, etc. Snow days are called on a district-by-district basis and are usually done the day of the bad weather, early morning, after a check of road conditions and weather forecasts.

Of course, the "bad" winter of what, 1978? We ended up having so many missed days in Kentucky that not only did we go an extra three weeks or so at the end of the school year, but we also had an hour or so added to each day until the time was made up.

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In my area the first day of class is right after Labor Day and goes into mid to late June. Not sure if they still do, but for awhile they had a couple snow days built into the schedule so if they got used because of snow, great. If it didn't snow, they'd have a couple extra days off. Something like that anyway.

My daughters school starts at 7:45AM and gets out at 2:10pm.

They get 2 days in Nov for Thanksgiving.
A couple weeks for Christmas in Dec/Jan.
Mid Winter break in Feb
Spring break in April (Next week)
In service days here and there

Elementary school here is K-5
Middle School is 6-8
High School 9-12
(Back in my day, there wasn't a middle school, it was junior high... and was grades 7-9 /grumpy old man)

I think most children are 5, sometimes 6.

We have Kindergarten and Preschool, but preschool here is something you have to enroll your child in... like a private school almost.

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