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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have great readers, so nothing else in ES. By MS, schools are posting summer assignments that have to be turned in the first week of school and you end up ruining part of summer vacation making them slog through these.

Summer brain drain isn't really a thing for high SES kids. [/quote]
I would ask the teacher this.  I think it's real. We are high SES.[/quote]

[b]Research says high SES kids maintain or gain over the summer.[/b] Low SES kids lose a lot. And why not?  My kids naturally read tons in their free time (DD logged over 5000 minutes for last summer's reading challenge), go to all sorts of camps (which between 2 kids, includes 3 weeks through CTY, 3 weeks of  1/2 day band/strings camp, VA Space Flight Academy, Girl Scout camp and glass art camp this summer) go to the pool, play with friends and, yes, do the dreaded summer math packets. Most of their friends have something similar going on (but probably with more sports, which my kids hate).  They are not sitting in front of the TV all day while we work, which happens to their low SES peers.  They are active and engaged with their environments. They work hard during the year, and I worry more about burnout than brain drain.

Anyway, the research: http://wesa.fm/post/separating-myth-fact-summer-brain-drain#stream/0[/quote]

Except math.  They all slide back in math. [/quote]

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