It's a great idea in theory, but a lot of people make a lot of their income in those three months off. I don't see anyway that this will ever pass unless they account for that somehow.
True, but education is an investment, and that would just be part of the investment. Ideally, the extra time spent in school, or at the very least, the lack of breaks longer than 2 weeks would make our youth better at math and science. Having a smarter population will help our economy more in the long run than just about anything else.
I agree that ed is an investment, but this particular investment would be us(state or country) asking a single population(teachers) to pay into the investment by themselves(in lack of opportunity to earn supplemental income) and we all would reap the benefits. Never gonna happen.
I am sure you could produce a better what-ever-it-is-that-you-produce if you would just work more to better optimize the product, and you could make my live easier if you would just do so for the same salary. Also, I would appreciate it.
The prob with ed is that it is too multi-faceted. They take authority from the teachers, increase school requirements, freeze/decrease budgets, and promote people that are trained to deal with kids as bosses of adult employees with million dollar budgets. All this on top of the fact that it seems a growing percentage of America feels like the teachers should be fully responsible for their child's progress/success.
Year round needs to happen, but the salaries need to increase. Hell, they need to increase as it is. Ed is an investment and right now our future is being taught by a quality of teacher that could be vastly improved if salaries went up.