Discussion shifts to conflicts between Shark's school calendar and a regatta in Europe.
School was postponed for an hour Friday morning, but she worried that more storms could cut into remaining breaks in the school calendar.
The U.S. school calendar is unusual, with students typically attending school for 36 weeks, two weeks less than the average for industrialized countries.
For example, would many public schools be able to add 3 to 4 months to the school calendar even with a fair amount of extra spending?
In Chicago, more than a third of the district's 675 schools opened Aug. 13, part of a year-round schooling effort that spreads out the school calendar with shorter summer and winter breaks.
John Deasy, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, said the new calendar lets students wrap up finals before the three-week winter break and gives high-school students more time to complete college applications.
If the music school sells the violin in the same calendar year as your donation, you (usually) can deduct only your cost.
Others, particularly in the South, start in mid-August and end in mid-May, a relic of the agrarian calendar that ensured students were out of school in time for the spring planting season.
That business is tied to declines in PC shipments suffered by HP, Dell, Acer and other computer builders in calendar Q3 -- historically a productive back-to-school buying quarter.
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If the music school sells the violin within three years of your gift (but not during the same calendar year), you (usually) must include the amount your initial deduction exceeded your cost as income in the year of the sale.
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