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In grade school/high school for me, spring break was always oriented around Easter. Good Friday off (maybe half a day), then the week after Easter off. (And from what I understand, it's still the same way)

*pulls out the rocking chair*
Back in my day...
We started school around the last Monday in August, and we'd finish up between June 5th - 10th. We had a nice number of days off...standard federal holidays that most companies have off, plus Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, MLK Jr Day, President's Day. We'd have a week off at Christmas and a week off at Easter, and then throw in a teacher's in-service day once a quarter, we were fine. (Oh, and in Illinois, we got Casimir Pulaski Day off in early March, too)

I have a friend in New York state where they had a week off in February (why?!) and now are in spring break. Their school district doesn't get out until the end of June.
 
stvfarmboy said:
We didn't have spring break. We had Good Friday and the day after Easter scheduled off. The Monday usually ended up being a make up day for a snow day. This was at a small town public school almost 15 years ago.
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Reminiscing warning:

I barely remember having snow days growing up. We lived a quarter mile from the paved road and I ended up making that trek on several occasions because they didn't want the buses to get stuck on the gravel roads. It wasn't a big deal, but I can't imagine how that would go nowadays.

"You'd better get those snow boots on. You need to walk to the corner so you can catch the bus"
"So the bus won't come down the roads, but you want me to walk it, then sit out there alongside the road in the blizzard and wait for the bus?"
"You're wasting time. Now you're going to have to run instead of walk."
 
Speaking of "keeping babies in" and school...

I had a friend in college whose wife was due right around finals. He said he pointed at his wife's belly, shook his finger, and said "If you come out before finals are over, I SWEAR you're grounded for life."

The baby was born the Monday after finals.

That baby is now 19 or 20 years old.

:eek:
 
ImJustKCClone said:
Wondering if we have the same friend? She plays in our bell choir - she was due within the last couple of days, and we told her she had to squeeze her knees together until 7.30p last night (after we played for the Maundy Thursday ecuminical service). ;)
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I am not sure. Does the baby's name start with an L? :)
 
Cybirdy said:
4 I don't think you would want all that. ;) And all girls.

We never had a week-long spring break in school, just time off aroun Easter. I think where we are now they do it more to coordinate with Iowa State/Ames since we have many families who work at the university
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I was thinking it was 3. Did you just pick a 4th one up off the side of the road recently or something?
 
mtowncyclone13 said:
Was called a "unicorn loving fagg*t" on facebook this morning. A friend posted something about someone deserving to get assualted and I said no one deserves that. Then a woman came in and said it would be better to shoot them. I asked if they really advcated for assualt and threatening people with a gun and that's how she responded. Then I said following the law doesn't make me that and she said only liberals have feelings.

This woman is married to a cop in Cedar Rapids. I deleted my friend. Sometimes I hate life.
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Don't hate life, man, haters are part of life but they are not life. It is hard for me to not hate the haters though. All of the Facebook people I have had to ditch or block for crazy and extremely hateful postings were small town Iowa folk. I have to be careful about even liking something out of sync with extreme positions or risk being future ostracized by my family. As my extended families positions become more and more extreme it is straining things some especially their anti-federal government rants. Like I am not supposed to be insulted as a govt employee when BIL rants about govt employees.
 
BoxsterCy said:
Don't hate life, man, haters are part of life but they are not life. It is hard for me to not hate the haters though. All of the Facebook people I have had to ditch or block for crazy and extremely hateful postings were small town Iowa folk. I have to be careful about even liking something out of sync with extreme positions or risk being future ostracized by my family. As my extended families positions become more and more extreme it is straining things some especially their anti-federal government rants. Like I am not supposed to be insulted as a govt employee when BIL rants about govt employees.
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But why are people becoming more extreme? It's like there is less and less middle ground. I wonder if the middle ground people just don't post what they are thinking.
 
mtowncyclone13 said:
But why are people becoming more extreme? It's like there is less and less middle ground. I wonder if the middle ground people just don't post what they are thinking.
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I think more and more people are becoming attention whores. The "shock-value" statements get noticed, good or bad. Then, add the fact that there are no immediate repercussions because someone can either post it over social media versus face to face or post anonymously on a message board. It's a recipe the vocal minority love.

It used to be that religion and politics were the two subjects people only brought up if they wanted to argue. Now, everything demands extremely conflicting opinions in order to be discussed.
 
mtowncyclone13 said:
But why are people becoming more extreme? It's like there is less and less middle ground. I wonder if the middle ground people just don't post what they are thinking.
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Personally I think it is a mix of people being more extreme and how easy it is to be fed extreme views now. Those that are middle ground (like my family) just keep their mouth shut. We aren't going to convince anyone that is extreme to one side or another.

So we just don't discuss it with them. We talk about sports, family, the farm and flying.
 
mtowncyclone13 said:
But why are people becoming more extreme? It's like there is less and less middle ground. I wonder if the middle ground people just don't post what they are thinking.
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I consider myself to the extreme left. But the difference is, I'm not an ******* to people about their opinions (unless is blatant prejudice) and can have a decent conversation with pretty much anyone of any opinion, as long as they're willing to do the same.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
I think more and more people are becoming attention whores. The "shock-value" statements get noticed, good or bad. Then, add the fact that there are no immediate repercussions because someone can either post it over social media versus face to face or post anonymously on a message board. It's a recipe the vocal minority love.

It used to be that religion and politics were the two subjects people only brought up if they wanted to argue. Now, everything demands extremely conflicting opinions in order to be discussed.
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Exactly why I stay off facebook mostly. All I see is girls/women showing off their ultrasound photos which get hundreds of likes. Or with a can of beer or bottle of booze in their hand. They also take pictures of their babies with themselves included. I guess it's still all about them and the kid just happens to be there.

I also hate in when people post pictures of babies, but you never know if it's theirs or not. Also can't stand the stupid MCM and WCW ****. This one couple says the exact same **** every week. "He/she annoys the hell out of me but I still love him/her." Cool. No one cares. Tell it to each other in person.
 
stormchaser2014 said:
Exactly why I stay off facebook mostly. All I see is girls/women showing off their ultrasound photos which get hundreds of likes. Or with a can of beer or bottle of booze in their hand. They also take pictures of their babies with themselves included. I guess it's still all about them and the kid just happens to be there.

I also hate in when people post pictures of babies, but you never know if it's theirs or not. Also can't stand the stupid MCM and WCW ****. This one couple says the exact same **** every week. "He/she annoys the hell out of me but I still love him/her." Cool. No one cares. Tell it to each other in person.
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Guess my "friends" list is more eclectic. They range in age from 20 year old granddaughter to my 91 year old aunt. I get a much broader range of posts in my newsfeed. :)
 
stormchaser2014 said:
Exactly why I stay off facebook mostly. All I see is girls/women showing off their ultrasound photos which get hundreds of likes. Or with a can of beer or bottle of booze in their hand. They also take pictures of their babies with themselves included. I guess it's still all about them and the kid just happens to be there.

I also hate in when people post pictures of babies, but you never know if it's theirs or not. Also can't stand the stupid MCM and WCW ****. This one couple says the exact same **** every week. "He/she annoys the hell out of me but I still love him/her." Cool. No one cares. Tell it to each other in person.
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are you Facebook friends with a bunch of high schoolers? I think my niece is the only person I'm FB friends with that does that stuff.
 
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