Parents across the country are bitching and moaning about the decrease in time their kids get for the summer vacations, which seem to shrink more every year, while many educators give a variety of reasons why it is so necessary. Of course, both sides are far off the mark. In fact, schools have never employed a sensible schedule, why should they start now, and when you get right down to it, why should parents fucking complain?
A common sense solution would be to give kids two weeks of vacation in the summer, two weeks in the autumn, and two weeks in the spring. Since most parents arrange for their work vacations in the summer, it seems, then the kids two weeks summer vacation can be doled out on a rotating basis.
And of course, two weeks during each of these seasons would hardly be enough, so therefore you provide the remainder of the much needed respite during the winter, for two months of it, in fact. What could possibly be more sensible? It would probably be cheaper, to say nothing of safer, to cool a hot school in the summer than it is to heat a cold school in the winter. And of course, as so many children are dependant of buses and public transportation to get to and from school, there are obvious travel hazards involved in winter travel in most areas of the country that wouldn't be a factor any other time of the year.
That leaves the problem of kids needing their summer time for purposes of recreation. But, in addition to giving them their two weeks allotment, you can have them go for three days a week during the summer-a further savings in those summer air conditioning bills-and have them make up the time during the spring and autumn months by going six days a week.
Besides, winter is a good time for recreational activities in it's own right. And on the especially cold days, what better time to gather around the living room with the family, sharing meals and stories. And oh yeah, engaging in nice, quiet reading and studying in preparation for the spring semester ahead.
Hell, thanks to the phenomenon of cabin fever, by the time that spring gets around, kids will probably all be ready, willing, and even eager to get back to school.
