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...There is a three-week period over the Antarctic with massive destruction due to high chlorine, some time and a lot of sunlight," Anderson says. "The preparation is the same over the Arctic, but there isn't enough sun to generate the ozone hole like that over the Antarctic...
...whole summer off, you get bored," she says. Instead of a long summer vacation, Amy now goes to school year-round, with shorter but more frequent break periods. "Just when I get tired of school, it's time for a break," says Amy. Her next respite will be a three-week vacation in September, when most kids her age are trudging back to class...
...just that. Beacon Day School, for example, a private school in Oakland, California, operates 240 days a year, with vacations scheduled at parents' leisure. More commonly, however, schools have simply reorganized the traditional 180-day schedule. At Park View, classes run for nine weeks, followed by a three-week break, a schedule known as a 45/15 calendar. Other schools, such as those in the Socorro Independent School District in El Paso County, Texas, use a 60/20 model: 60 days of school followed by 20 days of vacation...
...when Maryland discovered that seven state officials had enrolled in a three-week summer school class at the Kennedy School--at a total taxpayer expense of more then $40,000--there was a mild public outcry...
...beginning, it was supposed to be nothing more than a warm-up meet, a chance to get the kings out after a three-week Christmas break, and an opportunity to catch some sun in the process...