Poll: Should schools switch to a year-round calendar with shorter breaks, or keep the traditional calendar with a long summer break?

[Contrarian]

Should schools switch to a year-round calendar with shorter breaks, or keep the traditional calendar with a long summer break?

[bcsapper]

As a former schoolboy, I would prefer the year round calendar, but I'm sure family vacation planners would not appreciate the switch.

[Queenmandy85]

Stick to tradition. Actually, I think they should extend the summer vacation from June 15 to Sept. 15. Kids need the opportunity to get out and play.  While in class for the rest of the time, improve the math, science and geography curriculum. One of the improvements they could make is to explain "why." I learned how to solve a quadratic equation, but nobody told me what it was for for twenty years after I graduated. 

Edited Sunday at 01:58 PM by Queenmandy85