Alas, this isn’t a post about how great I look in my swimsuit, posed on top of a classic convertible.
I’m finishing up our school calendar for the year. Isn’t that exciting? For comparison, here is the 2010-2011 calendar for our public school district. They’re starting on Thursday, Aug. 5th and ending on Wednesday, May 25th. We are starting on Monday, Aug. 2nd and ending on Friday, May 20th (My 32nd birthday present to myself is to give myself a last day of school. Aren’t I considerate?). Cobb is also shortening the year by 5 days for budgetary concerns that I don’t share.
Cobb County has adopted a “balanced” school year, with breaks spread a little more evenly throughout the year. I actually like that model and am using something similar in our calendar, with 5-6 weeks on and then a week off. I am intentionally scheduling our breaks before or after the public school system’s breaks, however, because I don’t want to share our time off w/ the whole county. I’m selfish that way.
Patchfire’s need for symmetry drives to her implement a perfectly symmetrical year, with 90 days before and 90 days after midpoint*. I almost managed that, darn it, but then ended up with 93 days before the midpoint and 90 after. I’m wrestling with whether to leave those days there in case we need them, to schedule three extra 3-day weekends before midpoint, or to schedule one or two extra 3-day weekends before midpoint and the other one or two after.
These are serious issues, guys. My sanity hinges on knowing my school days ahead of time! Quit looking at me like that. Quit snickering!
If you really want to take a look at our quasi-completed school calendar, you can sneak a peek at it here. It formatted weirdly, so just mentally skootch those numbers back over into the squares where they belong, ok?
*Ok, she points out that this is not entirely true. She just needs to hit at least 90 days by midpoint and have the number of days be divisible by five, and counts the extra as being ahead. She is encouraging me to keep those days as emergency backup days. I decided I’ll keep two of them as backup days and add one as a three-day weekend in April (92 before midpoint, 89 after).
