Last Week of Summer!

Well, the last week of summer for the Oompa Loompas that is!  Much to the disappointment of the screaming Stepford Pod People who were distraught that they would have to change their vacation plans - this year school starts on August 5th.  I'm not clutching at my hair or tearing my clothes off and running out of the house screeching like a banshee on crack into the night over it, but I do have to wonder, why?  Why put the kid in school during the HOTTEST month of the year?

Personally - I think the Sept. - June school year is the best but here in the South they won't hear of anything so crazy as that.  Seems that the Seniors would have to take their finals AFTER Christmas vacation.  OK.  SO!?? 

West Coast kids do just fine with the Sept. - June schedule.  Must be all of that ocean air and free thinking.  I shall have to ponder this thought at the pool, by myself when the leetle cheeldren are in school.......heeeeeeee!!!!