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[quote=Anonymous]Children are not pawns, they are human beings. They need their rest, their family bonding time and the time to explore other interest outside the school. Historically schools were to  help parents to educate their children and even more so
provide parents free childcare so they could focus on farm work, factory work etc.

School should not take over family life, devour the entire family time and leave kids exhausted physically and emotionally.
The whole tendency to make school day longer and longer, the schoolyear  longer and longer has nothing to do with academic results. Whatever you can put in kids heads in  186  days, you can certainly put in  180.
Kids forget anything what they learn at school for the most part, school is about learning how to think
and not retaining the specifics that in any case have to be revisited and relearned or refreshed prior to any and all tests.

If the schoolyear has anything to do with fulfilling the gap for the need of free daycare then why this can not be satisfied without the affect  on the whole population? Let the schools be open in limited capacity all year round with day care stuff in place with free meals for the families in need and academic support for those who struggle, all during that time.

Keeping kids at school as much as possible leads to overstress kids that result in students that have all kinds of learning and emotional problems that transfer into family life impacting the well being of the family unit.

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