School Year
The school year always begins the Tuesday following Labor Day. By Pennsylvania Department of Education standards, there must be a minimum of 180 school days. The school year usually concludes around Flag Day, June 14, depending on the number of snow days used that year. Every third Wednesday in the month, students are dismissed one hour early for faculty or department meetings. No school is held on the following holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day and Memorial Day. School is held during Patriot Day and Pearl Harbor Day, but a moment of silence is observed during morning announcements. Students and staff have two major breaks during the year, one at the end of December, usually beginning on December 23. The other major break occurs in the spring, and this break always concludes on Easter Sunday. Other shorter, but notable breaks for students and staff: Thanksgiving Day Weekend (Wednesday-Sunday), President's Day Weekend (Friday-Monday), Memorial Day Weekend (Saturday-Monday).
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Famous quotes containing the words school and/or year:
“Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“The author’s conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)