Originally Posted By seanyoda In looking up the Matterhorn rehab, I noticed that for the end of the month, DCA and DL will be cutting back their hours yet again. DCA will be open from 10 AM to 6 PM and DL from 9 AM to 9 PM (with "Remember, Dreams Come True" running at 8:45 PM.)
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^This is nothing new, the week before Labor Day has been off-season hours for years, as most kids are back in school, including many college students that are CM's. Things like Fantasmic! and the Electrical Parade are not offered either....
Originally Posted By seanyoda Last year, the week before Labor Day, DL was open 9 AM to 10 PM and DCA was open 10 AM to 7 PM. http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=dl050829xx#ParkHours MousePlanet doesn't have the hours for August 2004. However, the week before Labor Day 2003, DL was open from 9 AM to 11 PM and DCA from 10 AM to 9 PM. http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=dl030825xx#ParkHours
Originally Posted By oc_dean It seems odd though ... when summer does not end till September. September 20th to be exact. I remember not beginning school till the second week of Sept.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>I remember not beginning school till the second week of Sept.<< So do I, but our local schools (in Loveland, Colorado) start next week. Ft. Collins starts this week!
Originally Posted By nemopoppins It's not fair that ones who enjoyed a proper length summer vacation like us grew up to shorten it for their kids. Seems kind of sadistic and vengeful to me.
Originally Posted By LuLu I don't think the number of school days has increased. Just more days off during the year. And I'd guess that DLR realized those days were dead, as local schools start that week.
Originally Posted By The_wicked_AP "It's not fair that ones who enjoyed a proper length summer vacation like us grew up to shorten it for their kids.." Kids get more days off around the holidays than I did when I was in school. Christmas (before it was PC to call it such), Easter, and other holidays that were non-existant when we were kids, like Martin Luther King day. And then there are your "teachers' days" where kids don't attend school and the teachers do whatever... Nowadays, kids' days off are spread throughout the year, not all at one time like back in the dark ages. My husband and I see a year round school year in the not too distant future. Some schools already do this and I think this is the way of easing the rest of the parents into it.
Originally Posted By berol The only differences around here are Admission Day is gone, MLK day is here and there are more teacher days. They start a week earlier these days.
Originally Posted By tinkerbell77 Well my kids are in year round school over here in Hawaii. And they went back to school on July 24. But they do have two week breaks after every quarter. I dont know which is better. Except when we go to DL in Dec. he will be on break! So that works for us.
Originally Posted By kmovies I know in the mid-west things have changed. It use to be that the school schedule was 180 days. If schools were closed for 5 days, so be it. Only if school was closed for over 10 or 15 days did the days need to be made up. Now, all snow days need to be made up, so most schools schedule something like 185 days with 5 planned snow days. If schools are not closed for that many days then either a long weekend in May is planned and/or school lets out a couple of days early. That, an MLK day, are about the only changes.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins I guess you're right. Even though it's many years later, I just can't get over hating school. But I still think that a longer summer is better than breaks during the year. It takes time to enjoy a feeling of no responsibilities and I think kids these days could definitely use that.
