Back in my day....wow, did that just make me sound old?....summer school was a bad thing. It was the punishment teachers held over you to get you to pay attention toward the end of the school year.
"If you don't finish that report, you'll be writing it again in summer school!"
"We'll just see how funny you think that tack on my chair was when I see you in summer school!"
"Maybe you can learn the answer in summer school, while your friends are all out playing baseball!"
When my daughter was finishing up Pre-K a few years back, she brought home a note about signing up for summer school, which I of course ignored. Summer school is for the bad kids. Over the course of that summer we learned about all the cool classes her friends were doing. Cooking, art, science projects that blew stuff up....we were missing out on all the fun.
This year my son is taking what has to be the coolest class in the history of summer school. It's called "Legos & Computers-ROBOLAB." That name alone is awesome! He gets to build lego projects that have motors other moving pieces. He came home the first day like he had just had Christmas morning, his birthday and a surprise visit from Spongebob in class. He talked excitedly about it for about 17 minutes without taking a breath.
How do teachers get the kids to behave at the end of the school year now? Threaten to take away summer school?
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