Winter break is good for students and schools

1) Rather than focus on the religious part of this argument I would like to bring back the original point about how during winter break students of all religions are given time off to spend time with their families over the vacation. As for the religious part of this argument though, major holiday's in schools are only considered major if they are celebrated by a large proportion of the student body, Arab holidays in schools with large Muslim populations are not ignored or specifically discriminated against and I have provided an example of that. 2) The source shows the current lenghts of the school years of a variety of countries in order of decreasing length. .. - 1 - Japan at 243 days - 2 - South Korea at 220 days - 3 - Israel at 216 days - 4 - Luxembourg also at 216 days - 5 - Netherlands - 200 days - 6 - Scotland - 200 days - 7 - Thailand - 200 - 8 - Hong Kong - 195 - 9 - England - 192 - 10 - Hungary - 192 - 11 - Swaziland - 191 - 12 - Finland - 190 - 13 - New Zealand - 190 - 14 - Nigeria - 190 - 15 - France - 185 - 16 - United States - 180So by using simple math you can see how the US in terms of length of school year is ranked 16th. .. .. I dont know how the Pro can claim that I am mis-interpreting evidence. .. .As for the 34 country accusation by the Pro, it came from the Pro's own source. .. . http://www.usatoday.com...The reason I am comparing America to the entire world is because you are trying to paint a false picture that America is towards the bottom when it comes down to the overall education of students because you were only examining the top nations to compare it to. By comparing the US to the entire world I am showing that the US has always been in the top 15% of the world to show that the US educational system isnt as bad as you are trying to claim. Lastly on this point, YOU were the one claiming that curriculum length directly translates into better results. "How do we fix this trend and get our nation back on top? We can get rid of winter break so that school curricula could be extended and more material could be fit into them so that students are able to acquire more knowledge, which would certainly boost our position in the rankings and keep our country ahead"I was showing the flaw of your logic and therefore proved that your idea that abolishing Winter break to extend the school year to increase results wouldnt work by showing how of the countries that do have longer school years than America, only a fraction of the still have better scores. ..3) My original argument that abolishing Winter Break would place a larger budget burden on schools has still not been offered a valid counter argument, the Pro just keeps trying to ignore it, claim money has nothing to do with it, and that this argument just be dropped for no valid reason.4) "Assigning students homework and projects effectively supplants a teacher-student learning environment in the classroom? An interesting claim made by PRO"Teachers assign homework, students complete it when classes start, Its simple logic. .. . If you think that this isnt true then why do teachers give homework at all during school days? You keep questioning that students do not learn material as well as they otherwise would in a classroom environment, yet the entire system is made up of giving students work to do outside of schools at home to then learn the material and go over it the next day in class. Winter break does the same thing just with a lot more time in between classes. Its called "homework" so that students do the "work" while at "home", and the entire school system is built off it. To summarize my points1) Winter break allows students to spend time with their families, and schools do not discriminate against non Christian Judeo religious affiliations when the student body consists of a large enough population for a religion. If Winter Break were abolished the time that students could spend with their families and relatives would be reduced by a considerable degree2) Students do work much longer than the rest of the world does and are therefore more exhausted when Winter break comes about. Also abolishing it and making the school year longer and may not raise performance as was implied by the Pro. 3) If schools were to continue operating over Winter Break than an increased burden on budgets of schools would cost them to possibly cut classes, teachers salaries, staff salaries, new books, upgrades, school maintenance, etc. but allowing for a Winter Break allows schools to spend money that they do have more strategically on education of the actual students.4) Students can still learn school material while enjoying Winter Break, and actual academic stuff is learned not stuff like "how to comb their hair" like the Pro suggests is what they learn. ..