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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both of my neighbors are teachers and both would likely quit if school was year round. My dad was a teacher and loved his summers. So, it's definitely a mixed bag so far as teachers are concerned.

My son is at a year round school, but summers are more laid back. Our director says she has to offer her elementary teachers the summers off or she can't hire anyone (she needs to be "competitive" with the school district). So, the summer teacher is the teaching assistant from the rest of the year.

As a parent, it's nice to not have to hustle to find camp for my kid, but now that he's a little older we actually are keeping him out of school for nearly 6 weeks on purpose -- just to let him have some space to breathe. My husband and I both work, but I work remotely and he is a professor and doesn't teach in the summer.

I can see pros and cons to each way, but if we moved to year round school as a society I do think that summers shouldn't be "mandatory" in the same way that Labor Day - Memorial Day is. It's nice for families to have the flexibility to take vacations.

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Wait, I don't understand the year round school. He has a teacher aide teaching the curriculum during the summer part of the school year? Then when 5th grade or whatever starts in the fall, the real teachers show back up? [/quote]

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