From the when I was a kid series…

School never started until after Labor Day. Teachers returned the day after Labor Day (Tuesday), then students arrived Wednesday. Somehow without the Internet or e-mail or social media or anything like that they got it done.

Today starts a marathon of preparation for students who will arrive eight days from now, 20 days before teachers of my parents’ era would walk through the schoolhouse doors after two and a half months of being totally disconnected.

Wow.