Meyer: Make the School Year a Full Year
OPINION
Meyer: Make the school year a full year
By Jeremy Meyer
The Denver Post
POSTED: 05/22/2015 12:28:06 PM MDT8 COMMENTS| UPDATED: ABOUT 3 HOURS AGO
Colorado’s attendance law requires districts to provide at least 1,056 hours of instructional time a year for students in sixth through 12th grade and 968 hours for first- through fifth-graders. (Anya Semenoff, Denver Post file)
Every year around this time a cry erupts from parents, education reformers and researchers about the idiocy of the summer vacation break for kids.
They all are right.
The nine to 10 weeks off every summer continues to be one of the worst policies in the American education system.
The policy is academically damaging, expensive and unnecessary in today’s society.