Summer Response

The structure of the traditional school schedule is being challenged due to America's concern with our academic performance versus the rest of the world.  Some journalists such as David Von Drehle have proposed that summer vacation is the problem. Drehle accuses summer as "a season of boredom, inactivity, and isolation". He goes on to explain how Summer is a time of learning loss for low income students, "while low income students slip as many as three months in reading comprehension compared with middle income students". However, Drehle doesn't seem to offer an alternate plan and instead relies on research, "first documented in 1906" that states the obvious; that low income families are at a disadvantage. Somehow, Drehle feels that providing basic facts about the economy, he can make "a case against summer vacation" when in reality, he's only creating a case against Capitalistic America. Fixing school schedules is a social issue that will be talked about forever, but the problem is no solution is being propose and arguments such as Drehle's fall sort of offering incriminating evidence against traditional vacations.