Education News: Summer Vacation?
posted by Karen Cole @ 1:30 PM
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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After many years of working as an educational researcher and curriculum developer, I now specialize in helping parents create a learning-friendly household. Find out more about by background on my web site.
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1 Comments:
A few things come to mind:
The hard part about summer for me is cobbling together a string of quality programs for my daughter. This year, I am lucky enough to take about a month off from work this summer, and my husband works from home, so we only had to find one 4-week program. Not too bad. The program we found at a nearby private school was actually cheaper than the district-promoted camp for the "gifted"---not too bad.
But many of the parents at her school have said they can't afford any of the programs they've seen. Th e really low cost or free ones tend to have hours like 9am to 1 pm--no help if you work from 8-5.
The spector of year round school, more of the same IS horrifying. But I'd love to see school buildings put to use for comprehensive, fun summer programs. Too many school buildings sit idle during the summer, as well as the kids.
Which reminds me I should go make my donation to the Y. They run great summer programs with hours that work for working parents, too, at the reasonable end of the price spectrum
So, what I'd like to see is the Y summer model, scaled up, run at most school sites, with plenty of subsidized spots. Optional, of course.
And the Gates Foundation's new money from Warren Buffet can get it all going.
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