Summer Sucks

[tleberle]

up until about junior high, I wasn't terribly keen on summer vacation. School was where I was competent. I could do the times tables and spell like no one's business, but if you put a bat in my hand, you could be there until Fourth of July before I'd get solid contact.  In junior high, I got involved with the summer stock theater camp at Green

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[shorann]

Affluent parents like having the ten week summer vacation because they can take extended vacations with kids, provide summer camp opportunities for them and offer other enrichment activities such as art or language lessons. However, I would say most cannot afford such luxuries, so unless these kids are fortunate enough to get connected to YMCA or other programs (which by the way, have limited openings for usually the most disadvantage kids), then too many just sit home, watch tv, and play video games with virtually no summer enrichment while mom and dad are at work