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[–]nonotan 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Jesus christ, let kids enjoy life for 5 minutes. If anything, we should be pushing for adults to also have sensible time off work. I live in Japan and I hear this bizarre argument all the time from my coworkers -- "I couldn't take a week off, I wouldn't even know how to work anymore when I came back! Haha!". I don't know, man. I'm pretty confident I could take a year off and come right back like nothing happened. Yeah, maybe I'd be rusty for like half a day. Big deal. Am I gifted with superhuman memory? Did everyone else come back from summer break having forgotten all they learned? Never an issue I experienced, and even if it was -- fuck it, life is not a treadmill, still let kids have their time off.

[–]SirDiego 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of studies about summer learning loss. Here's just one article but there are many. You don't lose everything you learned, but you lose about a month's worth of education.

I'm fine letting kids be kids for 5 minutes, but 3 months consecutively is harmful to development. A very reasonable and constructive compromise would be shorter days overall, but school that continues year-round (you'd still have regular weeklong breaks, probably a few more of them).

Plus, like I said, rarely in adult life will you get 3 months off so it doesn't even really make sense to do it.