Back to school!?!?!

[norsegirl]

The back to school commercials have already started. In fact I think they started a few weeks ago. REALLY!?!?! Do we really need to talk back to school the second the kids start Summer vacation? It's like having Christmas stuff in the stores before Hallowe'en. It bugs me how our advertisers are trying to push us into a culture of always looking forward and never enjoying the present moment.

Comments

[real-jayde.livejournal.com]

I agree!!!

However, I think that kids in the states go back to school earlier than kids in Canada do.

Mind you this is the first year in my life as a student or a teacher that I've had to go back to school *before* Labour Day - crazy.

[hel_ana]

Yeah, in Florida, they started school by the second week of August.

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

I just got an email from my sister - her girls (in Missouri) are starting back on August 13th.

[hel_ana]

And it looks like they're starting August 24th in Austin.

A month is still a bit much, though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medb_/]

Yep, supposedly that's why Pennsic got its dates changed (that was the rumour I heard anyway)

[much-ado.livejournal.com]

this is fact.

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Before labour day??? That is nuts.

There's a good financial reason for keeping the school break dates to the traditional July-August off... the cost of AC. Many school buildings do not have adequate AC to keep up with the summer months, and even those that do it would cost more to run at those times of year.