The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[perchie.girl]

Year-round school is a thing? That sounds interesting.

Yep... Not all schools do it.... they take longer breaks and shorter summer.... to spread the year out evenly....

It would be easier on the parents to especially if they have to do day care or after school care.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

After living in San Diego for 9 or 10 years, I gotta say that when I think Sann Diego the first thing that pops into my head is concrete. <sigh> Our whole family hates beaches, so while we took visitors to the beach we avoided it for our own activities. We spent more time in the mountains... fishing on Lake Jenny, Apple festival in Julian, hiking, that sort of thing...just to see something other than grey. We also enjoyed exploring the desert area during 5he cooler months. The only thing the kids and Ken and I really loved was the year-round school there. Oh, Tam, Terri and Kenny moaned and groaned when they first realized it, but before the first year was out they were all totally sold on it. They still talk about it. For a brief time it was on the table here, and we praised it big time, but folks weren’t having any part of it in this ranching community. Their loss...until you’ve experienced it, I guess you can’t appreciate it.

Where did you live in San Diego....

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

OH My Goodness, she is one large dog. I love her.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sean I'll come by after your discharge and push your wheelchair. Great chance to build my biceps.

Plus me talking your head off, will be a great incentive to heal FAST.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Plus me talking your head off, will be a great incentive to heal FAST.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yep... Not all schools do it.... they take longer breaks and shorter summer.... to spread the year out evenly....

It would be easier on the parents to especially if they have to do day care or after school care.

deb

Sounds kind of cool. So you just have like longer breaks for holidays and no summer? Or shorter summer? More even breaks instead of a giant long one? Curious what the benefits are/why people would like it? I think I read somewhere summer is kind of a bad thing because kids forget most of the stuff? Is that a similar reason to the idea behind it?

 

[Blooie]

Where did you live in San Diego....
We were in Imperial Beach for awhile until there was an opening in Navy housing. We lived in National City the second time we moved there, again waiting for housing. But most of our time was in the Tierrasanta/Murphy Canyon area.
deb

OH My Goodness, she is one large dog. I love her.

We do too! Bad, bad time to get a dog, with this travel schedule, but we’re managing.

 

[perchie.girl]

We were in Imperial Beach for awhile until there was an opening in Navy housing. We lived in National City the second time we moved there, again waiting for housing. But most of our time was in the Tierrasanta/Murphy Canyon area.

No wonder you thought of San diego as concrete,... Sigh. Navy housing is pretty efficient concentrated....

When we moved to Santee Tierrasanta didnt exist.... It was an old bombing range from the Camp Eliot days.

Yeah Apple Pie in Julian ... its fifteen dollars a pie now.....

deb

 

[Blooie]

There were so many positives about year-round school. They were on Tracts....there were 4 Tracts, A-D. So at any given time, 3 tracts were in school for 8 weeks, and 1 track was off for 3, alternating. Our kids all started out on Tract D, but when Terri started having her mental illness issues, we switched her to Tract C so we would be able to focus on her without the other two getting dragged into things.

They didn’t “waste” the first weeks of a new school year reviewing all they’d learned the last year. Didn’t need to - everything was still fresh in their minds. We didn’t have months of “I’m bored” over a long summer. Their behavior improved with the additional structure and consistency. (Well, except for Terri...her issues were deeper than that). We could take leave and vacation any time of year. And they advanced to the next grade within weeks, not months. For instance, Tam went on school break as a 4th grader and three weeks later walked back into school as a 5th grader. We could schedule doctor, dentist and eye appointments for their break times, no need to pull them out of school. Oh, and the huge savings in school supplies - no big chunk of money to outfit and supply 3 kids for school. Instead we could just replace what was worn out, used up, or outgrown as it happened. Staff loved it - no 3 months without a paycheck coming in. And our kids loved it - 9 months of school seems like forever but 8 weeks was a piece of cake. When we moved to Washington state from there, they were miserable with the long school year! Can you tell this family is a huge fan of year-round school?

 

[ShrekDawg]

New pictures of Franklin and Libby. Be warned, there are a LOT of pictures lol all the past couple weeks cause I worked every day last week and the week before, twice a day last week, so yeah. This week I only worked twice cause of the new puppy but I took 100 pictures just today I was there 5 hours though. Anyway, Franklin pics start around halfway down I think, you'll know when you see him ha some from yesterday and then the rest today. The ones with Franklin hanging off the bed and end with a close up of Libby's face are from yesterday, and the rest are all today. So if you just care about Frank, you might wanna scroll down to where he is and only look at those. Otherwise, feel free to look at them all cause I think they're all pretty good but I'm biased. I put them in a Dropbox album cause first of all that's way too many to upload and second of all, I realized BYC reduces file size and I wanted them to be full resolution. Not that it matters that much but still. And originally I was only going to put the 100 from today but then I figured why not just put all the recent ones together? Especially since I think there are a lot of Libby I never posted here but had put on Facebook. So yeah. I know it is a lot of pictures, sorry, but I think it's worth it. But of course it might require finding a bit of time ha oh and btw the first few with all the water are from the 10th and the tide is not normally that high. I think it was from the hurricane or something. It's normally well below the wall

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/2fq5z4kev3wuj7x/AAANIEadba90sQQs1MgJFVoOa