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Post by mga707 on Jul 29, 2022 11:33:02 GMT -5
Sounds like her area in FL is similar to here in So AZ. Wonder if it's a north/south thing, with more southerly areas starting and ending their school years earlier? Having to be in school through half or most of June just sounds so 'wrong' to me! Yeah, it does...but then again, going to school at any point in August seems really wrong to me. I grew up in MN, and we always started school the day after Labor Day. Yes, that meant the school year went into June, but we were out by mid-month. So that's the school year I'm used to. I feel for anyone who goes back to school before Labor Day, which to me signals the end of summer. My younger sister graduated from an AZ high school right before her 18th birthday in late May. This also coming from someone who never will be a parent, so not even sure my input is worth two cents. But the kids should have and enjoy their summer. When I was a kid in public school, 1964-76 (yes, I'm old!) the school year in my district (Tucson Unified, then called 'District 1') always started the day after Labor Day, but we still got out on the Thursday of the first full week of June, between June 4 and June 10. The reason being that there was no such thing as a 'spring break' then. We got the Friday before and the Monday after Easter off, and that was it. My senior year of high school, 1975-76, was the first year that the schedule changed: We started the week BEFORE Labor Day (which meant we got screwed out of one week of summer break that year), got a one-week spring break in early April, and got out one week earlier. June 3, 1976, which would have been June 10 under the old schedule. Not sure how the district 'made up' the other week that school year, but they did. A year or so after that, the local districts moved even earlier, starting in mid-August and getting out the week prior to Memorial Day. That's how it still is. |
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Post by LC on Jul 29, 2022 12:54:28 GMT -5
In TX, school starts in mid-August and ends around Memorial Day. Back in my day, it started either the last week in Aug. or the day after Labor Day and ended the first week of June.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 29, 2022 22:40:35 GMT -5
Oh I think I found one. And given enough time, more people will associate the song with a dumb Johnny Carson skit than with the actual singer. Afraid you lost me there. You didn’t miss much. Johnny aggressively prepromoted and then post promoted being on a horse dressed like a cowboy and singing Rhinestone Cowboy. It would have been okay and even a little funny if not for all the hype. The hype made the whole thing cringeworthy which probably is why I am over-remembering it. Art Fern and Aunt Blabby and Carnac were so much better than when he would imitate a singer, like Glen Campbell or Willie Nelson. |
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Post by chrislc on Jul 29, 2022 23:53:14 GMT -5
Before even attempting to solve this, I'd say it's worth first hashing out an acceptable timeframe for a given school year. For example: Here in Michigan, schools typically started the week before Labor Day until the 2006-07 school year, as a law was passed shortly after Labor Day 2005 to move the official start day after Labor Day. But the law allows school districts to file for waivers from that, and in recent years many have done just that - so the start date goes back into August for them. WHICH date in August even varies. And that's before we get into snow days affecting the end of the year timeline... My intent was to cast a wide net for a big tent and a kinder gentler list of songs. If some kid in Arizona or Texas or Florida got out of school the day before one of these songs debuted in the Top 40 I’m okay with that. The song still makes my list. Yes, I know, low standards. What’s this country coming to?  |
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jul 30, 2022 7:20:18 GMT -5
Here in Northern New York, most elemenray/middle/high schools start right after Labor Day and go to about mid-June. By a quick scan, I can't find any that occured during my formative years other than what's been listed above.
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Post by LC on Jul 30, 2022 7:34:57 GMT -5
Afraid you lost me there. You didn’t miss much. Johnny aggressively prepromoted and then post promoted being on a horse dressed like a cowboy and singing Rhinestone Cowboy. It would have been okay and even a little funny if not for all the hype. The hype made the whole thing cringeworthy which probably is why I am over-remembering it. Art Fern and Aunt Blabby and Carnac were so much better than when he would imitate a singer, like Glen Campbell or Willie Nelson. D'oh! Of course, I remember the "Rhinestone Cowboy" bit. I just didn't know you were referring to that song. |
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 30, 2022 7:56:46 GMT -5
Too bad "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell didn't hit #1 on Billboard/AT40 despite having a long run on the Billboard Hot 100 charts from one school year to the next in 1982.
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