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As a teacher who works for a year round program, I can speak to this. We are paid a ten month salary. If you choose to work the summer you get paid an additional 18% of your yearly salary on top of your regular summer checks. Obviously, this is tremendously expensive for the district.
The only reason summer is bearable is because you go on many field trips, there’s only one official classroom observation, there is no testing, etc. All our classrooms are air conditioned. The pay is also great. You’re basically suggesting that teachers work with no extra pay, no air conditioning, no field trips, high anxiety, and worse. I agree that the bathroom would be a huge issue. When the weather is bad we just do what? Get soaked? I’m sorry but you can hire a sitter for the summer and ask them to do workbooks with your kid. I did not sign up for that. [/quote]

Denmark is currently holding their school classes outdoors, or so I read. To be sure, Denmark in May is not Maryland in July. I expect it rains in Denmark, though, and I'm certain that kids and teachers in Denmark need to use bathrooms during the school day. In other words, some of these are problems that not only can be solved, but actually have been solved, somehow, by people.[/quote]

Denmark's approach, sometimes called "forest schools" is about learning through play. One purpose is to build confidence in children by allowing them to explore on their own. At times, the class may gather to discuss something a student has discovered. Forest schools are not about having students sit at desks or tables while outside in order to learn in a traditional manner while outside. It is an entirely different way to learn. It is student directed. In some locations it occurs throughout the school year so that children may observe seasonal changes to the environment. It may occur once a week, or so, broken up throughout the school year. I think it would be an interesting, stress reducing, relationship building approach to education -- but it does not sound like an everyday, all day, year round approach.

If we are to be successful using educational strategies adopting strategies from other countries, we need to fully understand their approaches and adopt them correctly. Taking a half in approach does not work. 
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