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ouch. but true, l.z. granderson wrote an opinion piece this weekend. kids may should go to school year round in part because we re trying to compete with the rest of the world where they re pretty serious about education. hi, l.z. what prompted you to write this piece? oh, man, saturd saturday nig live skit is a good place. it really started with my own frustrations as a parent. i have taken my son to four different schools in about two years desperately trying to get him into a school that s going to push him and have him ready to complete with the rest of the world and this is both public as well as private schools and i finally found somewhere and i m lucky because i have the resources and the ability to do that, but everyone in this country doesn t and that really concerns me. in united states on average, you go to school 180 days and we re going to show you in the back where that is with other industrialized countries. you think if there was a longer school year,
states. o because of the three-month gap, studies show that kids forget things too. so maybe we can do both, have better teaching, but also get rid of this three-month break in which our kids are forgetting things and then having to relearn them in the following fall. with two working parents, sometimes that summer gap is tough because you re trying to figure out child care, you re trying to figure out how to handle the summer where for parents things haven t really changed. kim, i want to bring you into this conversation and ask you from a teacher s perspective and an educators perspective, should we have a longer school year? i don t think there s any question that educators know that the more time a student spends on task the better off they are in terms of the chances they have to succeed. the more time you re spends learning, the betteroff you re going to do in school. the question of extended school policies is whether or not they re designed in conjunction with the community