Dan Luzer Why Do We Still Have Summer Vacation

Going into the first day of senior year I could hear some of my classmates asking each other “so when does summer vacation begin”? I, for one, was excited to see what senior had to offer and what was to come. As June approached I was ready for summer vacation. I was ready for no more homework, no more essays and tests and no more waking up at 6 in the morning. Summer vacation is a time for students to relax and recharge from their nine months of school so they could be recharged for the next nine months to come. However, there are debates on how vacation impacts learning summer and health development. Some think it is a great idea so the students can recharge and others think it is a bad thing because at this time they could be learning more

According to Dan Luzer in his article “Why Do We Still Have Summer Vacation”, “summer vacation has nothing to do with children at all” (Why Do We Still Have Summer Vacation 1). Summer vacation was originally built into the school schedules so the children who live on the farm could stay home and grow the crops. This was when 85% of students lived on farms and there was no air conditioning in the buildings (Why Do We Still Have Summer Vacation 1). Now since 3% of Americas live on farm, Dan Luzer questions what exactly is the point of summer vacation. “If there is no need to keep them home, why aren’t they learning for the three months?” American children in school lose about a month of what they learned in school while they are on summer vacation. He compares getting rid of summer vacation to “making Christmas less commercial or making congress less partisan” (Why Do We Still Have Summer Vacation 1). His point, by making this comparison, was to show that getting rid of summer vacation was never going to happen. Summer vacation made it easier to oversee testing and sell educational materials such as textbooks. The summer vacation was never about the students who were involved in agriculture, but it was more about making sure every school was

Out of most of the articles he reads about upcoming summer vacation, they all seem to talk about “summer learning loss” or the “summer slide” where kids tend to forget some of what they learned in the previous months of school (In Defense of Summer Vacation 1). He draws his attention to people who think that if children ae not learning reading, writing and arithmetic than they are not learning anything and summer is just a waste of time (In Defense of Summer Vacation 1). He says that “this assumption is indefensible” (In Defense of Summer Vacation 1). Children on summer vacation can be learning all sorts of skills that they learn faster in the summer than they would during the school year. While the children are on summer vacation, students have a chance to explore and learn things on their own than they would in a classroom while being instructed what to do by their teachers. Summer vacation is a long, extended recess that the children get after doing homework, studying and taking test from the previous school year. Summer vacation is a time where students get a chance to recharge, play and explore interests that they do not get a chance to while they are in school (In Defense of Summer Vacation 2). “Summer is a time to play sports, to do art, to play games, to socialize with friends, to explore hobbies and subjects outside the