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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The summer is way too short.

My kids do summer swim team and miss half of the season because they are still in school.

They also do sleep away camp. We drive to visit family for extended visits. They spend time without a schedule doing whatever floats our boat. They go fishing, kayaking, hiking. Ride their bikes for hours. We stay up late watching movies or playing Risk to the bitter end. We are spontaneous. They do a lot of wonderful nothing. They take on service projects. We relax. The list is long and varied, and I wouldn't give it up for the world.

I believe in summer.[/quote]

I have a 6-year-old and a full time job that doesn't have summer hours or telework options and gives me 2 weeks of paid vacation a year. During the summer, she is in camp for the same hours she's in school during the year, except she's arguably getting less out of the experience because it's not geared toward learning and ends up being "watching movies" that I pay $250-400/week for. Maybe I will feel differently when she is older and able to do more on her own, but summers are a pretty stressful time for us, trying to figure out how to provide DD with good experiences while not getting fired.[/quote]

Then you may prefer to attend one of the year-round school options. [/quote]

We are at a year-round school. And yes, we do prefer it. My point was that not everyone is able to take significant amounts of time off in the summer to provide enrichment. I'd actually argue that MOST people are not able to do that.[/quote]
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How do you know you prefer it? It just started this year. I'd like to know your feelings come July.  [/quote]

Well, that's fair, I suppose. Here is how I prefer it thus far:

1) I did not have to find camp options or take vacation in August, which worked well for me because I couldn't have taken a vacation in August anyway because of craziness at work. We were able to send DD to higher quality, higher cost camps in July because we only had to find camp for that month, basically. 
2) We got to take our vacation during fall break, which worked better for my work schedule and personality, as I'm not keen on summer and enjoy autumn vacations. For people who weren't able to take a vacation then, there was a camp at school. I haven't heard anything about how that camp went, but it was run by DPR. I know a lot of people who have been happy with the quality of DPR camps and also some who are less happy.
3) DD's teacher told me that she appreciates the extra school days because [b]she can slow her lessons down a little bit throughout the year[/b]. She's also excited for the prospect of less summer learning loss.

Happy to report back come July.[/quote]

Now that is the LAST thing i want to see happen. It is so slow as it is!! [/quote]

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