Back to School

We're back from a week off. Nice to see you all again!

Why did we take a week off? Well, remember that we have 47 classes per year. There are 52 weeks in a year, leaving 5 weeks of no classes. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean 5 straight weeks off. It just means 5 each of Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Often, holidays fall on normal workdays for us, and we have to take those days off, and subtract them from the total number of classes for that day per year. If a national holiday falls on a day we always have off, Sunday or Monday, we have to take a day off some other time to get the total number of classes down to 47. This year, a lot of holidays fell on our days off, so we had to take another week in summer to bring the total number of classes for each day of the week to 47. That's how it works!

We have to figure this out every year around June so we can hand out the new yearly schedules before August. And why do we start our calendar in August? Because that's the first month the school opened!