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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
North American school systems have the longest summer breaks in the developed world. Research shows the learning loss from such long breaks is significant, and adopting European school years (6-week summer breaks, 6 weeks spread over the rest of the year) would improve learning outcomes. So yeah, I’m curious in what ways year round schooling was a failure, because I doubt it was a failure academically.
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You've said this before, but it's clearly not true. The EU average for school days per year is 181 days, while Canada's is 183 (OECD average is 184). And because Canada has some of the highest instructional hours in the world, Canada's days are more intensive, with 5.03 hrs/day compared to the EU average of 4.56 hrs/day (OECD average is 4.35 hrs/day). Some places like the Netherlands have 6-week summer breaks, but by and large European schools have 8-9 week breaks during July and August.