Live the Dream STAT: Schools no longer out for summer
August 10, 2011, 7:14am
62 - Length, in days, of the 2011 summer vacation for students in Watauga County. The last day of school was June 8. The new school year starts today, August 10, exactly 9 weeks later.
It's so easy to envy Phineas and Ferb. They have 104 days of summer vacation, before school comes along just to end it! The annual problem of the mountain generation, is having much less time to spend it!

All nine schools in Watauga County open today. Also opening doors are the eight schools in Avery County, where students enjoyed a slightly longer vacation ..... by six days. (The 2010-11 year ended June 2). Ashe County students enjoyed the second longest break of the High Country, but saw it ended soonest. They were in class yesterday. To mark the occasion, here's the Ashe County High School Choir singing, appropriately, "I'll Be There."