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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and will never vote for Hogan based on his decision to change the school calendar. I know it may seem like a minor issue to many of you, but lengthening the summer vacation is terrible for children.[/quote]

Are you kidding?  It's great.  It's the way it should be![/quote]

there's overwhelming proof that children who live in poverty or who have limited English lose so much academic ground over the summer. [/quote]

Many of them probably aren't very academically motivated anyway.  The industrious ones always keep up.[/quote]
One of the biggest issue for kids in poverty is hunger. School provides them with at least access to two nutritional meals a day, which they may not get at home. Extended summer breaks therefore have an extremely negative effect on these kids. The lack of compassion involved in making this change with the hope that it will increase profits for Ocean City businesses at the expense of ensuring that the basic nutritional needs of kids in poverty are met really rankles.

Sure you could argue that this is a social problem and schools are not a social welfare agency. But Hogan did not propose any alternative social programs to address this need.[/quote]

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