Most U.S. students will be back in class tomorrow -- it's mid-August! -- and only 15 percent will start the school year after Labor Day. Southern states tend to have earlier starts. I guess if schools are air-conditioned, students will want to show up.
The Huffington Post asked teachers what they want parents to do to prepare their children for school.
Number one, writes Marie Holmes, is to adjust their bed times, so they can get to class on time and awake.
For kindergarteners, make sure they can use the bathroom on their own. “As teachers, we are not allowed to assist students in the bathroom or in cleaning up or changing after an accident,” Kellie Barragan, a K-1 teacher in California, told the Post.
Of course, teachers want parents to get children in the habit of reading every day with a parent or on their own, writes Holmes. Young children benefit from practice in fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination by using scissors, working on puzzles, drawing and modeling with clay.
Doing chores at home prepares children to take on assignments in school, teachers say.
Here in San Antonio, the SA Independent School District continues its long tradition of being blindsided by the advent of hot weather in the month of August, e.g.
https://m.foxsanantonio.com/newsletter-daily/san-antonio-school-faces-catastrophic-ac-failure-teacher-faints-from-heat#
If only they had some way to predict the climate a few months or years in advance...