The wasted month

Here in the state of high taxes and overregulation New York, school ends at the end of June. Like, after the official start of summer. It's a comedic waste of time because nothing of value is being taught at this point. K-8 are going on field trips to amusement parks (Both my youngest son and my daughter went to Seabreeze), having field days and other parties. The high schoolers are taking their useless regents exams.

What are regents exams, you might ask? Think of a ⭐special⭐ final exam that all the high school administrators think is important, but literally no college cares about. Not even NY state colleges care, it's just a final exam to them. They care more about your grades than the fact that you took the ⭐special⭐ exam. 

New York schools have a week off in February called 'mid-winter recess'. More like midwit excuses. There's lore that says it was because heating the schools in the winter was expensive so they cut it for a week in the coldest part of the year, but that's the worst kind of nonsense I've heard in a long time. It's pointless and needs to go. Send them to school and bring up the end of the school year by a week. And ever since "Juneteenth" became a federal holiday, they don't have school that day, either. That just stretches it out another day, so if we bring it up a week we get to skip that entirely. Right now this year the last day of school is 

June 25

Which is a crime as far as I'm concerned. Bringing it up a full five days would have it end on the 17th instead. And while we're at it, end spring break. Yea, I said it. The idea that the kids, and the teachers, need a break is a joke. Out here in the real world you don't get two months off, and the work time peppered with random half days, TWO WEEKS OFF FOR CHRISTMAS, and two other random weeks off.

End the school year earlier. The people whining about child care are already whining about it during February and April, they can whine about it in summer a little bit more instead. 

Stop wasting June in a classroom waiting for the clock to run out.