Starts this week.

It will allow more time for student development in academic, social, and emotional areas.

Research proves that students participating in full-day kindergarten programs have greater achievement gains in math and reading content areas.

I attended first grade and was totally lost.  Other children were already familiar with everything and already knew everything the teacher asked, and so she taught to the majority leaving me inferior, stupid, puzzled, and sleepy from trying to figure stuff out.  So , I paid for kindergarten, shoot I paid for my children to go to nursery school because it gave them an edge I didn’t have.

I suspect full day has much to do with parents saving on childcare.

Other research shows that no institution is as good at raising children as two loving parents.  Obviously the schools keep trying, taking more and more of the children’s day from parents.  Everyone went home for lunch, then school lunches became the norm; some schools added breakfast programs.

At the end of summer, I sent four well behaved children to school, and they sent back four brats at the end of spring.  Seriously, June was a difficult adjustment period for my children.   They laugh about it, now. 

I realized on several flights in September that parents have no idea how undisciplined their children are until they take them somewhere, and it’s too late to teach them.  It was plain that these children didn’t go anywhere with their parents, and maybe their parents thought it was too much trouble to take them, so here they are on a plane full of cringing people with their child yelling No, I don’t want to or I want it and screaming.  Totally humiliating, I’m sure.  What’s with kids on planes in September, anyway ?  Shouldn’t they be in school?  Is that the break month for year round schools?

October has always been a better travel month.