[haiku-appserver] Re: primitive drawing, bitmap issue

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:06, DarkWyrm wrote:
> >     Hmmm... how do you Americans have your school model?
> > In Romania it goes like this:
> > school and high school (classes between 1-8 9-12):
> >     - 1 sept - 24 dec -> 3 weeks vacation.
> >     - 15 jan - XX apr -> 2-3 weeks vacation.
> >     - XX+14 apr - 15 june -> 2 and 1/2 months vacation
> > 
> > faculty:
> >     - 1 oct - 24dec -> 2 weeks vacation.
> >     - 4-5 feb - 2X feb -> one week vacation.
> >     - 2X feb - 30(max) june -> 3 months vacation.
> In the US, it depends on the school. Some schools go all year. Most, 
> however, start somewhere around the last week of August and go through 
> some time just before Christmas. Thanksgiving is a national holiday 
> around the third Thursday of November, and we normally get Wednesday 
> and Friday off. Generally we get about 2 weeks off for Christmas/New 
> Years. Schools then run from Christmas Break through the first week of 
> June, taking a week or so off either before or after Easter. Through 
> out the year there are isolated 3-day weekends. Summer break generally 
> runs the second week of June through the third week of August. Of 
> course, teachers start preparing for the first day the entire week 
> before school starts.

Unless you're in the 'deep south' then school starts in the first week
of August, and finishes half-way through May.


Having had both of my parents working in education and growing up in the
north, this really throws off my notion of "summer break".

-bryan

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