[ifinnegan]

Leftists always want to change things and fix things that don’t need fixing.

Their goal is to get year round school.

I heard a PSA the other day with Michelle Obama essentially making the case for that, spouting some nonsense about how with a long break kids forget what they learned.

[sphinx]

I'm in favor of year-round school. I'd reorganize with a quarterly or trimester system with a break of a couple of weeks in between. If the school and/or school district were large enough, I'd also arrange the path to graduation to permit students (typically in the older grades) to sit out a quarter or trimester to engage in some worthwhile extended activity.

This would force a readjustment on the various sectors of the economy built around the presence of tens of millions of idle students in the summer months. The summer camp industry would be hard hit. But I think we'd see better educational results, and working parents would find the change welcome once they got used to it.

[Yaelle]

PSA the other day with Michelle Obama essentially making the case for that, spouting some nonsense about how with a long break kids forget what they learned.

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I heard that Mooch PSA. It’s hypocritical. She says summer is important because kids get new fun experienced etc. Then she says they lose 2 months of bullpoop school factoids. Sheesh. There is the Internet now. We don’t need to stuff kids full of facts. Kids learning how to travel and meet people and adapt to new things, learn new activities, will get them better jobs than knowing all the state capitals etc.