When Does School Start?

Our "classroom assignment" letters (received at the end of July) indicated that Grades 1-5 would start on the Tuesday after Labor Day, September 8 (not, as has been true in the past, on the Wednesday). This shift, as I understand it, is intended to give at least one more day of instruction in the school year.

While the class assignment letter for our Kindergartener indicated that class would start on "Monday, September 8," that obviously doesn't quite work. Other hints (like the timing of the K parent's coffee and the PPS calendar) suggest that K classes actually begin on Friday, September 11. At Rieke, at least, Kindergarteners will be doing assessments on the preceding couple of days.

ETA: We got a new K letter on Wednesday 8/19 -- Friday September 11 is indeed the first day of K. Assessments will occur Tuesday through Thursday.