Explain Why Children Should Not Be Longer School Years

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Do you really want longer school years? Making school years longer for children would make it harder because they wouldn’t do any work or not even care. One reason I think that their should not be longer school years is to have children do things outside of school. Also the shorter the school year will be the more they have to learn and study. Therefore, I believe that the more time kids spend in school the less time they'll have outside of school.
Eliminating any sorts of long break from school can improve a child's academic achievement. For example, long summers are known to cause “summer slide” or the decline of academic skills. This loss in learning varies across grade level subject matter and family income. As you can see if your child

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