Vagabond wrote:
"This would be the end of 1st (Fall) term. April is the end of 2nd (Winter) session.
Spring & Summer sessions are only 2 months each at most post-secondary schools, though NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (which isn't my school (Don't you love nested brackets?))) runs 3 four-month terms instead.
School lets out in April so the adults can get back to the farm for planting. It picks up in September 'cause the harvest is mostly in.
Of course, most of the students have nothing to do with farms anymore, but that's where it comes from.
And Grant Mac (which is my school) is running about two weeks early this year, because the teachers' contract runs out on the 10th or 15th - so they had to be sure they were done before then.
Anyway, thanks for the fond wishes.
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11 November - LEST WE FORGET
""...He screamed like a Backstreet Boy hit in the nuts with a polo mallet. They do have nuts, don't they?""
-Dennis Miller"
