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Year round schooling would dramatically increase costs. We might get a better product, but a debate about how to improve results is incoherent without a discussion of costs. In other words, we have to consider alternatives that are of similar or lesser price. I don't know what they might be, but they deserve consideration.
On a side note, one of the problems with the current system is that parents spend much more time at work than kids spend at school. This creates time where the parents are away, but the kids aren't at school. It is during this time that a lot of kids fall into trouble. Lengthening the school day would help alone, but it would have more dramatic effects in that it would eliminate this asynchronous parent-child schedule.
One more point. The amount of homework that is assigned to kids these days is not appropriate. I'm by no means advocating a weaker system, but grade school students shouldn't have 3-4 hours of busywork a night.
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