Bern it up with Sanders or burn it down with Trump

[Mike M (the other one)]

(03-11-2016, 04:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: There is no reason that school should not be year round.  Having the summer off is an anachronism from the bygone days of agrarian based economy.  Children do not need to be out of school to help on the farm anymore.

They also retain more of what they learn if they do not take a 2-3 month break.

Oh I understand that part, we need to allow them to be kids and time for the parents to plan vacations. We can't give them off a week and then have a large number of parents trying to get off at the same time to go on a vacation. Not to mention that letting them off in the middle of the summer time helps by keeping the costs of electricity down by not having to run the AC's. Now if we were able to make a big initial investment in getting the schools fixed up, and putting up Solar Panels/Wind turbines, and that would also be a double win cause the students could be exposed to it at a much earlier age.