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While the idea of a 'balanced calendar', like what they have in Europe, is a good one, they neglect to understand the kid's point.

As an adult, I think it's a great idea. But having been a kid who absolutely loathed school, the idea of year round school would have been anathema.

It's not natural to put a kid in a classroom for 180 days. You're sitting on your butt, listening. Yes, I suppose you're expected to interact, but for introverted kids, speaking up is not going to happen. You're not even allowed to have time to yourself after school. You have 'homework', which, to me, wasn't so much instructional as much as it was just a teacher's ticket punch.

Most schools have gotten rid of recess, and even when you had recess, it was only in elementary school. Middle and high school didn't have recess. So in the vast majority of kids, you're merely an 'inmate' of the academic institution, told what to wear, where to be when, and what to do-which was sit.

I was like most kids, full of energy and being locked up five days a week for months on end merely destroyed whatever interest I had in learning the orthodox way. Only during summer vacation, when I had time, did I have the chance to pursue MY interests, and they were all outdoors.

These days, even summer vacation is structured. Mostly because parents have to work, now, there's no more Mom at home and Dad making a living. Both parents have to work in order to HAVE a living. So Kids have 'organized sports" to keep them under a watchful adult thumb, or the worst of the worst- '''summer bible school"..more indoctrination when all a kid wants is to be do what he or she wants.

Kids need to have a few months to run without heel ropes. Leave the unbalanced, current system in place.

From: Balanced School Year: Students prefer the current calendar

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