I have found a few over the years, and a few on the opposite side as well. I would say if it isn't a dealership, you have a pretty even chance of finding a good one.

The biggest problem is you can tell if they are a good shop if they are booked solid. Have to find that balance of small enough shop to be legit, but not too small to where they lack expertise.

Vastly depends on the school, many do offer some extended year programs for students that need it.

From a more practical perspective it is because teachers contracts specify they get that time off, and because the summer is used for the majority of school renovations, upgrades, and repair.

The last one is a big thing, majority of non emergency projects cannot be done when students are in the building bothe because it distracts students and becuase it may be dangerous. For instance taking the school's power offline to replace a transformer or water offline to replace pipes.

Every summer schools absolutely cram everything they can into those months to get the building ready to go for the next year.

That was my first thought as well. This is gonna end poorly for some scientist's lungs.

Correct, if the new year starts and the budget is not finalized all governemt shuts down and nobody gets paid. It has happened quite a few times in the last 10 years.

The last few times the GOP has actually held the whole country hostage by refusing to pass anything until they get a whole bunch of questionable spending attached. They are just pissed this time the shoe is on the other foot. Both parties do it to an extent, but the GOP is the party that throws a huge hissy fit about it.

Well it is actually worse than that. Half of them are just super crazy and want to control the way things are and don't even have kids in the district if at all.