It is nuts!
Why is it nuts? Why do kids need the entire summer off of school? So they can get work done on the farm? The idea of the 3-month break is antiquated and it needs to be revised. I'm all for a few weeks here and there, but three months is just ridiculous.
Hmmm.......I'm suspicious. How old are you?
Tell that to large businesses that get to try to schedule all their employees vacations in a two month time frame.
"Why do kids need the entire summer off of school?"
My kids have done scout camp, church camp, tennis camp, band camp and a couple of trips. They also got to just relax some. All of these were learning experiences they couldn't have if they were in school. Structure is important, but too much is, well, too much.
12 months each year, no breaks and graduate H.S. in 9 years at the ripe old age of 15.
It's called vacation. School is not prison and should not be like prison, as I stated in post 81.
I disagree with your post but the above statement was LOL funny!
Simple, so they can be kids. By my calculations, if our district ditched all of the 1/2 days for conferences and such (i.e instead of 10 1/2 days during the year use 5 full days) my kids could have another week of August to enjoy the summer.
But that will never happen as they will only get federal funds for the days they are in session x number of hours.
It is their way of playing the system for your tax dollars. They are using your kids to fleece the system with all of those 1/2 days.