CASE AGAINST SUMMER VACATION

Case against Summer Vacation

Case against Summer Vacation

Introduction:

David Von Drehle writes on the cover of TIME entitled "The Case against Summer Vacation":

"We idealize. But all that downtime is making our children fall behind, especially those who can least afford." Social scientists call it "summer learning loss." (Drehle, 2010)

Others simply call it "the summer slide." The argument: The summer vacation of three months is an anachronism that harmful to U.S. global competitiveness, but hurts low-income children, most of all children who do not have a chance to go to camps or centers learning or education going on vacation ...