Will you, or will you not, consider that the education of your childern - and the others might be a tad more important than your summer vacation?

It is a proven fact that long summer vacations slow down the learning process as kids - especially the younger ones have to relearn study skills and habits.

An agrarian society requires maximum labor during the summer months, and those societies planned their school year accordingly. That has little value in a modern service sector setting. Instead of crying about lost summer vacations we should be preparing our children for the rigors of the workplace. This requires more that 180 days of school each year. Learning is a lifetime endeavor. We should seriously consider increasing the school year and absorbing the associated costs as an investment in citizenship and a true measure of our concern for the future.

I sure hope they don't vote in longer summers. Summer break is more than long enough. Plenty of time for several camps, vacations and much more. Most of the the teachers that teach my kids love the breaks during the school year, which would be shorter and some eliminated if we had a longer summer break. So do most families I know. Those breaks are refreshing breaks. And there are plenty of daycares and local daycamps for school-aged children if both parents work, and don't want to use their vacation during the mid-schoole year breaks. I would never vote someone in who went back to the archaic long breaks meant to help farming families out.

Mom to 3, plus a few strays