For many students , summer is fun and freedom. While more privileged students travel and visit museums, libraries and summer camps, many low income students are stuck at home and fall behind in their education during the three month break. Studies have shown that when students continue studying and learning during summer, they improve in reading, math, and science, because of this, educational reformers, with the contribution of their community and philanthropies, have begun to establish summer enrichment programs where less privileged students can increase their academic skills and knowledge while also having fun, a different model than traditional education and one that involves the idea of stealth learning(yes, we are bouncing a basketball, but we are also learning about physics.)
I agree with David Von Grehles point of view to an extent because as a kid during summer vacation I would go outside and play with some of the kids from the neighborhood, we would ride are bikes and scooters, play tag and hide and go seek until the sun came down and we all had to go inside. This was my idea of summer, I didn't want to be at a summer enrichment program where I would have to do more work, after all summer is for play. But now that I am older I find my summers to be boring with nothing to do or any where to go, so i'll just lay on the couch and watch TV all day, so I wouldn't mind going to a summer enrichment program where I could possibly advance my reading and math skills by a full letter grade while not having to sit at a desk and do book work, but instead possibly going fishing where I can weigh and measure my catch doing math without even realizing it or what summer educators like to call stealth learning.
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