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Show Year-round school good for families Editor: Having read Mr. Thornton's letter of March 5, 1 wonder what we really will get from year-round schools. Taxes are increasing for new facilities and teachers, while what we already have sits idle for three months every year. Teachers work second jobs to make ends meet and families require second incomes to pay the ever rising taxes to support this system. Mothers and fathers are taken from homes nights and weekends to pay the ever increasing burden of taxes. The average working person doesn't get three months off every summer to spend with the children. The little time allowed with children on weekends and evenings shouldn't be diverted to making enough to pay for facilities that are used only 182 days per year. Year-round school will not break up the family. It will allow for parents to have more time with their children by reducing the lime spent every year earning enough to pay taxes. The additional employment em-ployment opportunity for teachers will reduce the necessity for them to work a second job and they loo can have more time with their families. Year-round schools will allow more time for families not less as Mr. Thornton indicates. Habits are hard to break, but the three month summer break is one habit we all should consider breaking. -David L. Gaines |
