Los Angeles Schools Consider Pros, Cons of Year-Round Schedules
Prof. Allan R. Odden’s excellent piece extolling the year-round school concept (Op-Ed Page, Oct. 18) leaves out one very important additional basis for its support: student morale.
Elementary and junior high school students, facing bleak and lengthy school terms without seeing an apparent light at the end of the tunnel, frequently have a morale crisis, usually in the spring when school seems to go on forever for them.
Having shorter periods of school with more frequent vacation periods lessens this problem and, hopefully, prevents the decline in student performance which always seems to come in February and March of each school year.
ROBERT A. RAMSAY
Arcadia
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