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One of those was Conor Clarke’s essay last month on the Web site of The Atlantic, titled “
Why We Should Get Rid of Summer Vacation.” He was not talking about mine, but rather my children’s — and the fact that three months off every year is a schedule that makes less sense in a modern world than in the agrarian (and unairconditioned) one in which it was first created.
His arguments, he notes, are familiar ones. They come up every year at this time: Students — particularly those at most educational risk — backslide during the summer. Parents need to spend and scramble to find child care. Wealthier families can afford safe, stimulating ways for children to spend the empty days, but lower income families often can not. And the yearly pause means American students lag behind much of the Western world in the number of days they spend in school.
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