Controversy About School Vacation

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I'm going to persuade you that it doesn't matter if school vacations are bad or good, you know?

How can kids be stressed about school? Is by doing homework because sometimes, it's hard to understand something that they can't really understand like for example, math (we have to do a lot of solving problems). They use so much of their brains! Those are hard to handle but mostly

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