What's the latest in people's lives?

[Griffin]

Well, I've left school. Managed to get through the leavers assembly without crying.

Though we've got to stay in another two weeks for revison
Then it's just my GCS Fecking E's to get through and I've finished compulsary education

[Reliant121]

Jealousy turns me green.

[Sionnach Glic]

Well, I've left school. Managed to get through the leavers assembly without crying.

Though we've got to stay in another two weeks for revison
Then it's just my GCS Fecking E's to get through and I've finished compulsary education

Congrats.

Do you plan on going on to third-level, if you don't mind me asking?

[Griffin]

If by that you mean continuing in education, then yes I am. I'm joining the local sixth-form, which is actually sort of joined with my current school, i'm not sure how it works but they sometimes use our site, and all the teachers at the sixth form are also teachers here. I'm taking Geography, Biology, Media Studies, and IT.

If you mean something else then you'll have to explain.

[Sionnach Glic]

No, that's more or less what I was asking. I tend to forget you crazy foreigners have different terms for things.

[Lt. Staplic]

I have three more days of high school, one more soccer practice, and one more game in the regular season....things are winding down fast...

[Mikey]

Three more days, in the middle of May? Do you attend a parochial school?

[Mark]

God, I miss not doing squat during the summer.

[Sionnach Glic]

Three more days, in the middle of May? Do you attend a parochial school?

Some courses over here are already finished. It can vary quite a lot.

[Lt. Staplic]

no, I go to public schools, but 1. I'm a senior and our graduation is the 23rd, and 2. My school district starts WAY early, like second week in August early.

[Mikey]

Three more days, in the middle of May? Do you attend a parochial school?

Some courses over here are already finished. It can vary quite a lot.

Yeah, but attending a school in Ireland would be a hell of a commute, and I don't think they bus that far.

no, I go to public schools, but 1. I'm a senior and our graduation is the 23rd, and 2. My school district starts WAY early, like second week in August early.

Wow, that is early. That's actually a parochial school schedule. Is that a holdover from the need to getting the kids out of school for sowing season?

[Sionnach Glic]

Do they really do that over there?

[Lt. Staplic]

Wow, that is early. That's actually a parochial school schedule. Is that a holdover from the need to getting the kids out of school for sowing season?

I don't think so, considering I live in one of the richer suburbs in this area, and we're the ONLY ones that start that early.

[Sonic Glitch]

Do they really do that over there?

That's where the traditional "summer break" you hear us talk about so much comes from, from back in the days when every able body was needed on the farm for the start of growing season.

And in PA the first day of buck season is invariably a school holiday

[Mikey]

Do they really do that over there?

No. I said "holdover." Staplic is from the midwest, IIRC; and before the mechanization of farming and the decline of family farms, the children of the family were the first and foremost of the available labor pool. Since the sowing and reaping seasons were so important to the economy of the whole community, school schedules were based around those times. Now it's not the case, but I suspect that the tradition could remain.

And in PA the first day of buck season is invariably a school holiday

The GM medium-duty truck plants in Flint, Michigan close for two weeks in early December for deer season.