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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (68776)	12/26/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

If districts have summer school they are operating nearly year round- except that the summer school day is shortened. And since it isn't mandatory I suspect that the kids who really need summer school don't go. Of course my kids go, and I think they get a lot out of it.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (68776)	12/26/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

Theoretically, they probably should. On a practical level, thinking about all the other issues--what about family vacations, which can be so important to children? Throwing out a thought, should we adopt the European mode of taking a specific time when everyone goes en vacance and keeping the schools open except for this agreed-upon time? In which case, what happens to companies? Again, I'm not quarrelling with you; I'm trying to figure out how this could be worked out practically. The Europeans are abandoning the "August" style, so how do we make sure of time taken apart with family and friends with the parents away from work pressures and the children free to play with their parents? Especially if both parents are working? I'd like to see a longer and richer school year. I used to spend a great deal of my summer reading my way through the reading lists that we were given, which launched me off to more of the different writers' works; but there was no requirement that we do so. I did it because it was fun. (BTW, I also picnicked, swam, played basketball, read fairy tales, learned needlework, learned to draw and fire pottery during the grade-school vacations. I did not sit around turning into a white worm--LOL!) However, we are dealing with the very corporate world you describe so eloquently. How do we fashion the change so that we can give our children a longer and richer school year and still give them this precious time when their parents are not working and can spend a couple of weeks just recreating with them?