There are about 500 school districts in our state with about 3300 public schools therein. Add in the charter schools , private schools, cyber schools, religious schools…you get the idea. There are a lot of schools.

Somebody on TV – whoever (whomever?) writes the ad copy for Sonic Drive Thru – decided that we need to know that today, August 14, 2014, is National Back to School Day.  It took some checking but we have been able to tell for certain that only one of the public school districts in our state will begin instruction today, Thursday, August 14, 2014. Others started as early as August 8; one will start as late as September 10.

We think they should all start on the day after Labor Day. For this year that would be Tuesday, September 2, a perfectly acceptable day to start school. But that’s just us.

We mostly think it should be illegal to proclaim a day, any day, Back to School Day, unless you are in a position to decree such a thing! That’s right, unless you are a school principal or a district superintendent you just can’t do that. You’ll be breaking the law.

Do you really want to get into that? Are you going to sell that many more hamburgers and hot dogs if people feel summer is slipping away. Maybe hot tubs; not hot dogs. Perhaps French cut bikinis; not french fried potatoes. Possibly pooltoys; probably not pickles.

We’ll probably get a craving for fast food sometime in the future that starts today. We’ll have to find some other drive thru to satisfy that craving. Those guys obviously are putting all their buns in a basket that expires today!

That’s what we think.  Really.  How ’bout you?