Attention: Those parents who are taking their children on a nice late-summer vacation, ending over the Labor Day weekend.

Highline Public Schools start before Labor Day this year.

Thursday, Sept 1 is the official first day of class in Highline. Traditionally, in Highline, students didn't have to report to class until after Labor Day.
But missing a Labor Day vacation might be a better prospect than foregoing an Independence Day getaway.

Highline schools have never actually finished after the Fourth of July. But some of these past cold winters have had administrators nervously checking the calendar-especially as the snow days pile up like drifts of the white stuff.

Starting school before Labor Day allows the district to avoid the danger of dragging the end of school past June, according to spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers.

Besides, some Highline teachers need to get out of school in mid-June in order to get into college classes during the summer, Rogers added.

Tukwila school kids can relax for a few more days this summer. School doesn't start for them until the day after Labor Day-Tuesday, Sept. 6.

But even though public school students in Highline will be back in the classroom five days before Labor Day, they shouldn't complain too much.

The private school kids at Seattle Christian Schools in SeaTac must report to class on Wednesday, Aug. 31. And John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien starts a week before Labor Day-Monday, Aug. 29.

Here's some summer motivation for matriculating through the K-12 system and graduating-Highline Community College students in Des Moines don't start fall classes until Monday, Sept. 26.