WOW! Your school lasts WAY into the summer!! My son has been out since May 27 and final grades for Jess arrived by May 6. I am glad she is out and you can enjoy your summer. Have a great time at the pool party!! Be sure that whatever you do you make sure MOM has a good time too!! Put the other parents to work, LOL!!
When do you go back to school? How does the school handle the summer cooling costs? We end early because summer here is sooo viciously hot, even at the end of May it was a problem here. We have some students who cannot even tolerate the heat waiting for the bus because it gets so bad some years. If schools don't have air conditioning (many older buildings do not, or it is not working) they often have heat days in the summer school programs and even in the fall when school starts. They do shorter fall and spring and winter breaks so they can start later and end earlier. My dad was in a building with no a/c and problems with the heating system. It made teaching an extra brutal job. I always thought teaching jr high was already akin to lion taming!! They didn't need to add brutal temperature extremes. In past years some schools have even brought in giant shipments of ice to help cool rooms with-o windows and to help provide cool water.
