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Without summer vacation bad parent's would have NO motivation at all to do anything about their kids.

Summer vacation at least means parents have to be parents for a short consecutive period.

School should start later in life, after age 10 for boys, perhaps a year or two earlier for girls.

With a more mature mind you can learn faster; the early years really are wasted for most kids.

School at an early age hurts curiosity and self driven discovery of new things about the world. The teacher/child ratio just isn't there to answer questions, and not being able to get answers to questions results in eventually giving up.

Take the resources we have, cut the time in school in half, double the student/ratio. I think we'd see much better functional literacy if we did that.