I am pretty old fashion and even though I have not been in the K-12 system since 1985 in Indiana. First thing I favor is have the school year structured where Summer Vacation is from Memorial Day to Labor Day. What I remember in first grade was we got out like June 6th in 1974 and I member our principal told us on the PA system to have a safe Summer and see us in September. Come 4th grade, school started like on Aug 30th in 1976 and by 8th grade in 1980, we started like on Aug 25th. A lot of parents were pretty p*ssed with the early start date. And now they start early to mid Aug and even in some districts, end of July.
I remember many years ago, I had a debate with a liberal woman I worked with and she remarked that Summer vacation was anachronistic from our agriculture days. She supported year round school. I know the district here in Colorado where my son goes to, they usually run Summer vacation from Memorial Day depending on snow days to mid August. IMHO, school should not start any earlier than Labor Day due to temperatures being still too warm in August. There was one district nearby went to year round school and the parents were p*ssed about it and the head administrative office people basically told the parents too bad.
The Prussian system (public schools) is anachronistic-—when we had the highest rates of literacy-—we never had “forced education” and kids never EVER went before 7 years of age-—if they went at all-—like Lincoln who is self-educated.
Many people—like Mark Twain only went to “school for about 5 years at most-—and they are way more intelligent than our kids who graduate from college today.
Why? Because John Dewey in 1930 was a Fabian Socialist who wanted to get children away from their parents so that Christianity could be beaten out of them and the idea of Absolute Truth (God and Natural Rights from God).
The design of our schools is to create “group think” —into Marxist ideology.
It is to flip a Christian—God centered Nation—into a slave state. To do this, the individual has to be destroyed and made into a “collective” thinker.
Individualism is caused by parents loving and guiding their own children with extended family and letting them grow and learn according to their individual ability. Collective/socialism is what our school system is for—to destroy the individuality of children they put them in an institution which could care less about them and make them conform to “mass thinking” and be conditioned to be dependent on an authority figure (stranger/State) for all information.
Humiliation is the most common way to achieve the “group think” so children become very fearful of thinking “outside the box” which used to be common in Americans.
Notice how girls even starve and die to conform to the idea of “beauty” for women -—set by homosexuals who promote their idea of beauty as looking like adolescent boys.