K-12 “School throughout the year”

Is there any benefit to having school throughout the year, replacing summer break with one week of school followed by one week of a break/practice time?

I am a substitute teacher in the U.S. and while I cannot entirely blame poor retention of learning material in my school district on the timing of education, I can’t help thinking that schooling for months on end followed by absolutely no schooling for two months does students any favors. In my experience, when I was learning French, the first few weeks was just reviewing everything learned (or forgotten) during the preceding school year.

Submitted August 14, 2025 at 08:36AM by Zealousideal-Hunt242 https://ift.tt/yrDuYGT