The battle brewing between the provincial government and the Vancouver school board has taken an unfortunate and overly political slant.

The Vancouver board will likely balance its budget next week to avoid being given the heave-ho. Either way, the NDP bullpen that is Vision Vancouver has raised its profile and the extensive coverage given to Patti Bacchus may serve her in any further political aspirations. Whether she should use the school system as leverage for a profile building exercise is another story.

Not out of the woods yet, the Delta school district has managed to be creative in dealing with decreasing enrollment in a relatively a-political environment. Closing schools is not any easy option but tough decisions have had to, and will continue to, be made if there are no young families moving in to South Delta.

That is the serious part of school and schooling. The fun part? Kids enjoying the summer break that starts right now. So let's have some fun?

On Thursday I got a call from my daughter to ask if I could drive up to the high school to pick her up because it was locker clean-up day and there was no way in the world she could carry all the contents home.

I caved and drove to pick her up. When I got there, she asked if I could put the bag in the truck for her. At first I scoffed, but the serious look on her face told me it may well be heavy.

If you were training as a firefighter and were asked to carry this bag 100 metres, you would fail.

I may be old, but I think I am in decent shape. It took my best effort to bend with the knees and chuck this glad wrapped collection into the back of the truck.

Although exams loom for the next couple of weeks, Thursday night was the start of 80 or so lazy days. As I am writing this there are three 14-year-olds in my living room "studying" for a math exam.

I approached my kid to suggest that I might be writing a story on her glad garbage bag and asked if I could take a peek. She quickly pointed out that it would be ethically wrong for me to look in her bag. I asked what she knew of ethics and she said, "Lots ... they teach us in math class."

Undaunted, I replied that I had a moral responsibility to investigate the contents of the bag. She asked on what grounds. I said because I buy your ice cream and wash your clothes.

"Look, dad ... I will give you a brief description of the contents but I want you stop this foolishness. We are trying to study. Can you get us some frosted flakes?"

"There are some books, lots of clothes, pens, shoes, one or two old lunch bags but don't worry because they are ... like ... petrified or something like that. Oh ya ... I found that red hoodie. There was a bag of grapes that is, like, water now ... I guess it is ... like wine?"

"That's cool, isn't it?"

I guess that's cool. Nothing has changed. Happy end of the school year everyone!