My significant other is a teacher, and same! Maybe our reasons are different, but mostly I don't want to have to take all our vacations 1) in the summer and 2) when everyone else in the world is taking their vacations.
Also hard to get a full day in camps vs at school and afterschool. Also lots of research showing that breaking that continuity is bad for their learning. But the vacation thing too!
I don't think that research is right? There are a lot of learning loss skeptics who point out that e.g. students catch up with the loss extremely rapidly, so if you test in October and June instead of September and June you no longer see any summer learning loss.
Open to the idea that this is the case but in everything but schooling one does not simply take multi-month breaks and then spend a couple of months refreshing your memory. Seems less than ideal even if you're right!
IIRC there are citations in my Twitter @-replies? But you'd have to search @ (or from?) my handle with "learning loss" ca. 2020 (or 2021?) and hope the counterparty who cited the work didn't delete their account.
Yes, definitely. And I feel like even for my adult S.O., working long, hectic hours 9.5 months a year and then not working at all 2.5 months is not actually healthy.
Or at least optional year round childcare! I have a Substack post in draft now about how walkable PreK-8 neighborhood primary schools that offered year round working-day onsite childcare and adjacent retail would be the Best Thing Ever for parents and both pronatal and pro-strong-community
