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...colleges, breed promising youngsters, he says, the best of whom go to sports institutes as teenagers. Government funding also supports home-based athletes (such as Thorpe) and their coaches (such as Doug Frost, Thorpe's mentor). A benign climate, particularly in Sydney and Brisbane, offers hundreds of training venues year-round. Supportive parents who cart seven- or eight-year-olds to early-morning squad sessions help achieve great results at a younger age. "There is no country with this culture," says Touretski...
...changed calendar did little for Fanny Finch Elementary, a year-round school in McKinney, Texas. It was so hot there in July that the school regularly canceled recess and families started leaving for other districts. After five restless summers in class--and negligible student improvement--the school is switching back to a traditional timetable. "My kids missed out on family vacations and swimming lessons, and on just being kids," says mother Darlene Clark. "I kind of missed the summer myself...
Parents, after all, may have a harder time adjusting to a longer school year than their children. "Adults are used to thinking that summer is some idyllic time when everybody goes to Europe for three months," says Marilyn Stenvall, a former principal and advocate of year-round schooling. "Even though that doesn't happen, we find it difficult to change our own lives and schedules." Parents could take a few pointers from DeAndre Womack, a St. Louis sixth-grader. The shrinking summer suits him just fine. "My friends teased me about it in the beginning," he says...
LEVY: Last year the Board of Education voted to do away with social promotion on the theory that children were not being helped by simply being passed along. Starting in third grade, children can be held back. We now have almost a quarter of the system going to summer school. Unfortunately it's only four or five weeks. I wish that it were longer so that those children who need it could get year-round help...
...Nonetheless, I'll remember the performances of our remarkable jocks who balanced a Harvard schedule with a rigorous, year-round physical regimen, producing countless sports memories for less-than-supportive fans...