While on summer break most kids forget a lot of what they learn during the previous school year. This wastes even more class time when they enter the subsequent grade after summer break and have to relearn much of what they forgot. Summer break was originally designed to permit children to help their parents on a farm. However since very few, if any, students attending BVSD actually live on a farm the original purpose of the extended summer break is obsolete.

To help children retain what they learn the summer break should be reduced to two weeks.

To put this idea another way 172 days is simply not enough days per year for students to be in school. That should be increased to 240. That leaves 20 days, or four weeks, per year in which students would not be in school. That figure matches the business standard of four weeks per year for vacations and holidays.

Reducing summer break and having more days actually in school would; 1) eliminate the problem with students forgetting what they've learned during summer, 2) provide more opportunities for students to learn new material or fully master the existing curriculum, 3) greatly reduce parents financial burden they bear to provide day care for their children when not in school.