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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also would staff salaries change anyway, given that they'd be teaching the same number of weeks?  It's just that their time off is more distributed throughout the year, so why would it cost more?[/quote]

It wouldn’t! People hear year round and think it means more days. It doesn’t. It means the breaks are split up more evenly throughout the year to prevent slide and promote info retention better. [/quote]

So funding is not an issue. The only thing stopping this from happening is political will. [/quote]

Well that and parents who don’t actually want their kids in school when they would prefer to be at the pool and traveling [/quote]

+1  As a parent I would not send our kids to year-round school.  I like the nice block of summer time so that we can go away for extended vacations and trips.  It would be ridiculous to try to deal with a bunch of 2-week breaks here and there.[/quote]

I think a 5-6 week summer seems to still serve this purpose...  Some places are nicer to visit in non-summer months.

I love the idea (or should I say, the fantasy, because it is never going to happen).   I wonder if teachers would support it.  Some teachers take full on second jobs during the summer, which would be harder to do in smaller breaks. [/quote]

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