{"id":1038,"date":"2007-08-07T01:26:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T05:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2007-08-07T01:26:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T05:26:22","slug":"florida-no-longer-has-the-silliest-school-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Florida no longer has the silliest school calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Dayton <em>Daily News<\/em> observes,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/dayton\/education\/entries\/2007\/08\/06\/believe_it_or_n.html\">Believe it or not, school&#8217;s back in<\/a>&#8230; in Ohio. Thanks to a state law, Florida public schools cannot open earlier than&nbsp;two weeks before Labor Day, a move to forestall the nutty shoving of the school calendar further back into the Sweaty Season to eke out a few more weeks before Testing Season. There are some problems with this limit, but it&#8217;s preferable to starting August 3 or 4. <\/p>\n<p>Dayton schools are starting in the middle of a heat wave. At least in Florida one could say that it doesn&#8217;t make a practical difference whether the two extra weeks of school are in early June or early August, because the schools will still have to pay for air conditioning. But in Ohio???<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: I have to remember not to blog at 1:30 in the morning any more&#8230; had to fix two typos in the heading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Dayton Daily News observes,&nbsp;&nbsp;Believe it or not, school&#8217;s back in&#8230; in Ohio. Thanks to a state law, Florida public schools cannot open earlier than&nbsp;two weeks before Labor Day, a move to forestall the nutty shoving of the school calendar further back into the Sweaty Season to eke out a few more weeks before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-gK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}