When you were a kid, did you start school before or after Labor Day. I always started the day after Labor Day. When did

[OldBaldy1701E]

119. Definitely a different time.

Yes, except for a very few instances where they wanted to start the Wed. before Labor Day. I suppose it was to help transition the kids from a summer of leisure to 'the grind'. However, our entire system of breaks was different in many ways.

Back when I was in grade school, we got the entire week of Thanksgiving off. Not just the Thursday and Friday.

We also got about a month for the Christmas break. We would get out around December 16th and not go back until after January 6th. (Which is celebrated as 'Old Christmas' where I am from.)

We never got a seasonal break, like 'Spring Break', but we did get an entire week for Easter, usually the Wed. through Friday before it and the Monday and Tuesday after it.

We always went into June. I never got out before the end of May. Now, as an adult, the school where I used to work always let out at the end of May unless we had a large number of snow days to make up. That was so weird to me, being done by Memorial Day.

And lastly, I did not have a classroom with A/C until I was in middle school in the mid 70s. And even then, it was only in the 'new' building. The rest of the school was still using big fans and open windows. In Coastal North Carolina. With almost half the year having temps above 85F, which put the classrooms in the near 100F range every day. We did not take breaks. We did not have teachers reminding us to 'hydrate'. The class would turn in some day work and each sheet was soaked through by the student sweat. Sometimes the teacher would have to spread them on a table to dry out in the fan breeze before they could grade them.