Dayton Schools Going Year-Round

(Dayton, Ohio) The entire Dayton Public School District is going to a year-round schedule starting the 2004-2005 school year. The new calendar starts:

. . . in early August and ends in early June with two-week breaks in mid-fall, early spring and over the holidays and a nine- or 10-week summer break.

Classes also will be offered during the breaks, providing intervention for students needing extra help or enrichment. The new calendar provides for the same, state-required 178 days of school in current school calendars.

This is a great idea! Of course, I'm not a student. Nor a teacher. I imagine both groups will have complaints.