Facts & Fiction FAQ
For four decades, proponents of year-round or "balanced" school calendars have made claims of enormous benefits. These claims have been accepted despite countless research data to the contrary. The idea that year round school is a "trend" that everyone is going to is simply false.
This FAQ presents cited, rational answers to many of the questions that have been raised on the subject.
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Is the proposed calendar "balanced" or "year round?"
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Advocates of the proposed calendar call it a "balanced" calendar. A true year-round calendar, they say, does not have eight weeks summer break but only four to six.
Here's why we insist that calling this calendar a "balanced" calendar is simply PR.
Under the proposed "balanced" calendar our kids will be in class all or part of 11 months of 12 of the year.
Read that again: our kids will be in class all or part of 11 months of 12 of the year.
It is a year-round calendar. And that's what we call it.
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