Year-Round Schooling. Why? Why Not?
Being the dork that I am, I have always wondered where the idea for scholastic summer vacation came from. I mean, I knew that at one point in time there was no extended vacation, and then, magically…there was! Please don’t get me wrong, I never complained, but the reasoning, at least as it was told to me, never made sense to my addled brain. The idea that youngsters had to help out on the farm? Really? So, the city-kids catch a break just because Mom and Pop farmer needed help? Sounded fishy to me. Anyway, The Breakfast Club guys dared me to write about this after it came up one Sunday morning because I kept asking why kids don’t go to school all year-round. I was hesitant because I knew it would take more reading than usual. I also felt that I was being taken advantage of since two of these dopes are public school TEACHERS! And most importantly, golf season is almost over! But being the cagey guy I am, I then made a lane change and became fascinated by the idea of which i...