[FRC Blog] Frank Answers Fridays: June 13, 2014

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Originally Posted by Cory

Schools that start after Labor Day often end at the end of June.

Just wanted to plus this post. Schools openings are earlier and earlier for some reason, but the result on the other end is Graduations well before Memorial day. But at the current pace of moving forward one day per year means that the FIRST season will occur over "summer break" starting in 2050.

I was a regular attendee at school board meetings where I was told that parents wanted the earlier end date. So I would do a "show of hands - who didn't understand that a 1 June school end date would mean a 25 August start date" and get a room full of parent to stick their hands up.

For what it's worth, VEX has a 25 day gap between the last world event qualifier and the championship. That solved a lot of travel problems.