My school district wants to change the school year format.
Currently, our school year begins at around September 2-7, and classes end around June 15, with provincial exams lasting until about June 25.
What they want to do is make summer vacation around 2 weeks shorter, and stick those two weeks of vacation into October.
There's some supporters, and some naysayers (for lack of a better word...)
On the pros side, we won't forget as nuch over summer... apparently. However, that doesn't really change much due to the semester system we are using.
Say in grade 10, you have English semester 1. Then, in grade 11, you have English semester 2. You end English in January 2010, and start english next year in February 2011. So this won't make us forget less in that regard.
There are a bunch of pros/cons. Has your school district discussed/implemented this? What is your opinion on the balanced school year?
