[bluestarultor]

I dunno about anyone else, but having had both traditional and year-round schooling (admittedly in college), I wonder if these people have ever considered that kids tend to do a good deal of social growing and "being a kid" during a long summer vacation. Not to mention it's nice to have a real break after the stress of finals.

This strikes me as taking a lot of the fun out of childhood, but then schools as an institution seem to excel at that. It's all about the test scores and beating information into kids' heads to regurgitate. Personally, I think kids need to be given ample time to be kids instead of finding the next more efficient system for conditioning them to hate knowledge and end up working in a cubicle somewhere flinging pencils at the ceiling.