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Proposed calender change: How will this affect your summer?

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When I picture summertime I cannot help but imagine myself surfing at the beach, traveling around the world and meeting interesting new people. Although when summer actually arrives I am still imagining but on the couch busy with a bag of potato chips. Though I personally do not spend my summers enjoying various daily activities but rather enjoying The Daily Show, summertime is undeniably an important time of year for students to relax. Recently, the Las Virgenes Unified School District school board has been distributing surveys to parents to propose and vote on a change for the school calendar. Through these surveys, LVUSD hopes to draft a new plan which leans towards year round schooling, eliminating the traditional summer break. This plan is simply a recipe for not only personal but academic disaster.

An educational downfall to eradicating summer break would be a student’s inability to participate in traveling abroad as well as engaging in summer courses to strengthen their academic rigor—or even make up missing credit. Summer for many students does not always include constantly going out, but getting ahead to expand their intellectual horizons. Many beneficial activities such as taking interesting classes and learning new cultures are essential to diversifying oneself as an individual and expanding one’s knowledge of the world. Take it this way, would you rather be seen composing your personal memoir on the rustic and beautiful streets of Paris or with some hipsters at Starbucks?

When students have class year round, their break times are not always aligned with their friends and family, giving students less time to maintain important relationships. Eventually students will lose all of their connections to society and will end up establishing a more than casual relationship with their toaster—what’s cookin’, good lookin’?

Although extended breaks throughout the year may initially seem leisurely to students, taking too much time off in the middle of the year could potentially discourage the drive to learn. When students have longer vacations during winter and spring, they tend to come to school less focused and less inclined to get back into work mode. In short, nobody wants to sit through a Physics lesson about gravity after spending their entire break re-creating scenes from a Michael Bay movie.

LVUSD’s proposal for a new calendar will only hinder the average student and create a more difficult academic environment. Instead of attempting to fix what clearly is not broken with the old calendar, the district must allow students to embrace their traditional summer break. Besides, August is just around the corner to be the summertime killjoy, LVUSD can wait a few months.

 

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