The summer break should be a time of rest and rejuvenation for students. After nine months of hard work and challenging lessons, you might think that such a long break would do nothing but good for students; however, this is not the best way for young minds to learn. A three-month break is too long for children to live without proper education and supervision. Instead of a long three-month break at the end of each school year, why not give students the same number of days off but spread them out more frequently throughout the year? Year-round education is a more efficient, globally competitive, and equitable alternative to the traditional nine-month school year. The reasons for a three-month summer break are outdated and provide no functional benefit to today's student. The current nine-month school year with three months of summer vacation is unnecessary in today's society. It originally served to enable children in rural communities to help their families with the harvest (Hemerson and Gove 8). Teachers originally viewed the nine-month school year as a way to maximize attendance in rural areas of the country (O'Sullivan 399). This serves no functioning purpose in today's society. Today it is estimated that only 3% of the population is engaged in agriculture (Kralovec 32). The nine-month school year was originally supposed to allow more child laborers to attend school, but, with current child labor laws, this has become obsolete (O'Sullivan 398). The move to an annual program is simple and straightforward, but leaders are delaying only because the change would cause disruption among those who like the program as it is (French 28). These antiquated ideals should not be allowed... middle of paper......Print.Kralovec, Etta. Schools doing too much: Wasting time and money in schools and what we can all do about it. Boston: Beacon, 2003. Print.O'Sullivan, Mary Therese. "The Ten-Month School Year: Are We Ignoring Educational Research to Preserve Summer Vacation? Finding a Compromise Between Educational Progress and Overschooling." Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal 2 (2013): 395. Advanced Placement Source. Network. January 20, 2014."System supports for teacher learning and school improvement." Springer International Handbooks of Education: International handbook on school effectiveness and improvement. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, 2007. Reference creed. Network. January 29, 2014."Education all year round." Issues and controversies on file: n. page Problems and controversies. Facts On File News Services, July 28, 2000. Web. January 20, 2014. Web.