At my old school, we used to get this memo telling us when we could and could not start packing up our classrooms and what could and could not be packed up. By the time I left, the memo was three pages long. So if any of you are non-teachers, that gives you a sense of the (possibly needless) complexity of the task of packing up classrooms while, theoretically, learning and teaching are still going on.
Now that I teach high school and my principal is a sane and reasonable person, one who does not routinely issue three-page memos, I don't have to deal with that anymore. Classroom packup starts before Regents even start because classrooms are supposed to be stripped of
