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I agree. My son just started kindergarten this year and they get 3 breaks of 1 week or more in addition to all of the national holidays & teacher work days. But they only seem to get about 9 weeks off during the summer.

Regardless of what changes are made, though, some people won't like the new schedule. It's just a fact.

In my experience, Teachers spend a lot of time in the fall teaching kids that never really learned what they were supposed to the year before.

Agreed. My grade school was year-round, repeating x weeks on, y weeks off. I would love my kids to be on that schedule. An extra benefit would be that travel wouldn't be so crowded and expensive.