Think of the Children
The Case Against Summer Vacation (time.com) Last month when I wrote my “Open Letter to Retail Stores” about stores putting up back-to-school displays waytoo early in the summer and depressing children, one of my friends in NorthCarolina wrote back to tell me that many schools there are operating on a year-round basis, staggering student terms so that some students were starting school in July. I talked with another North Carolinean about this, and although the economic advantage of keeping classrooms operating the whole year is…