Thread:Lidewey/@comment-28482541-20170720152241/@comment-28482541-20170720234452

Why you like it is why they initially started the year round, that and they felt it would prevent the summer loss of skills. And it sounds good at first, but when you get into it, there are a lot of issues.

Many parents, especially low income and working, had a hard time finding or affording child care for just two weeks at a time. In the summer there are a plethora of cheap child care via programs, teens, and college students on break. Other child care people need steady income not just two weeks here or there.

Then, for us being in the armpit of the south which gets gosh awful humid heat in the summers, it becomes expensive as well as high near impossible to cool the large school buildings. I remember those first few years taking a change of clothes because half way through the day I would have sweat through the first set. It was miserable.

And honestly, all the little breaks seemed nice at first, but without that big break, it did not feel like you got a break at all. After the second year absenteeism went up astronomically in the summer months. Me personally, I hated it, not having a summer stunk!

I am just a lowly teachers aide. I have worked the last two years with the head STEM teacher grades 5-8. I am talented with the robotics, so I tend to head up those classes, but usually I am more in the background. We do a lot of hands on projects, sometimes taking over hallways, the gym, and various places where I am needed for supervision. I deal with the supply room, project needs, copies, folders, and taking lesson plans from paper to their physical form in the classroom. Basically anything the teacher needs. The teacher I work with is highly energetic and always moving and keeps the kids moving. I am her organization that allows her to do that. She is highly respected by everyone and well liked. I love her to death, but she is the most disorganized mess I have ever seen! Lol! We laugh about it often and she says that's why she has me!

We have pics and some video of some of the projects. I will talk with her about getting permission to share them. Not sure I can. If not I can still send you the ideas!

As far as the challenges.....They seem to have been running them back to back, so I am just assuming that another one will begin shortly after this one ends which is coming up in a few days.