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[quote=Anonymous]The question clearly brought out the folks who love to post how their child, even though he or she is in AAP, is "just a normal kid" who does nothing! (Nothing at all! Ever!) outside school that could possibly smack of academics, heaven forbid. It's perverse -- this proud denial of anything like having a kid -- in AAP or not -- do anything academic over the sacred summer.

You can have all the idyllic, Funyuns-and-games summers you want when they're younger, and that's fine then, but frankly as kids get older -- again, AAP or not -- they are going to need to keep up some skills in the three months between one grade and the next, or they will struggle. Our relatives in another country where there is year-round school (with generous vacations of two to five weeks throughout) shake their hears at the idea of three solid months with zero academics. I do too.

My kid (yes, in AAP, middle school) does a long vacation with us, several weeks of hanging out and doing things around home and playing, one week of Girl Scout day camp locally, one week of a writing workshop (four hours a day for five days), some math work three times a week, and a lot of dance classes because she dances extensively in the school year. The dance school recognizes that kids must keep their skills up over the summer months and requires them to take a certain minimum of classes so they don't get rusty and end up falling behind (and getting injured). Why shouldn't parents also recognize that kids need to keep up academic skills to avoid getting rusty too?

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