Is Summer Brik Like the Us?

Summer slide in educational attainment is a well-known phenomenon. The more intensively children absorb new information before the break, the more rapidly they lose it during the break. There's only so much that can go into a child's mind and be retained. If you squeeze really hard and then release the pressure, what tends to happen is it just, you know, you've squeezed too much in, it just flows out again. In europe, there is a legal entitlement, plus lots of holidays for saints days and various other types of festivities. And kids end up being perforce abandoned to various sorts of improvised child care arrangements which aren't necessarily a disaster, but certainly mean that parents go