I have many reasons for being a substantial supporter of year round schooling. Not the least of which is that summer vacation is a slow form of torture for parents. I was an only child, my mother worked 40 hours a week, and I am told that I was a fairly good child (until my teens) by my mom and other family members and she still went nutso during summer vacations. I understand why. Today is the first full day of summer break around here and I am ready to strangle my eldest two children. I think I need Prozac...maybe Valium. Or I need to give the children lobotomies. I hear keeping them drugged with darts is illegal. All those child abusers out there make it hard on the rest of us. Okay, so that was beyond awful, and I am sincerely sorry. It's just my mood.
Not that summer vacation is going to feel like much of a vacation for my two younger ones. They both get to go to summer school. Of course, the district set up these things to run at different times instead of together, so I'll spend all my summer running kids back and forth to summer school. Which isn't necessarily that bad. The way the older two are acting, I'd just as soon drop them off there now, summer school or no, with some food, sleeping bags, and clothes and pick them back up in August aobut two days before school starts up again.
How the hell did my mother survive? Maybe me being the only one made the difference. I knew I should have followed her lead. Yeah right. I'm obviously not that intelligent.
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