The writer is a Gainesville native and a graduate of Eastside High School's IB program. She is currently a senior studying elementary education at the University of Florida. School was the farthest thing from our minds, existing only in the vaguely familiar haze known as fall. The education establishment is certainly trying to make that the case.
High schools are particularly guilty of stealing summer away from students.
In the name of furthering the education of the students, teachers are piling on work to be completed during the summer months. They may say that the workload isn't too demanding. Mind you, it's not as if the teachers are giving up hours of their summer in order to grade and provide feedback on the assignments. Of course they're not, school's out for the summer. One area high school has bombarded its students with three novels for English Literature, one novel in the foreign language the student is studying, and a three-thousand word research paper.