Your article about summer learning had an incorrect headline about a lengthy break.
Believe me, students do not have a lengthy break anymore.
I actually grew up in a time when my first four years of school had a four-month break and then it became a three-month break.
Children don't have time to now enjoy their summer break.
With our eight months and later nine months of school we were able to learn important lessons about life doing chores, helping neighbors, exploring our surroundings, swimming, fishing and other important things about growing instead of being fed a steady dose of programmed knowledge almost year-round.
With our limited schooling we produced from my class and some near mine doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, teachers, engineers and countless other professionals — leaders of society.
Children should be allowed more time off, not less. We didn't lose the knowledge we learned during our longer breaks.