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Editorial: Should schools restore students' long lost summers?
Debate over early August start of classes shouldn’t take away local decision-making
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Cherokee Bluff High School students enter the cafeteria Tuesday, Aug, 7, 2018, during the first day of classes for the new high school in South Hall County. - photo by Scott Rogers
At one time kids savored August as the final act of summer’s symphony, when lightning bugs beckoned for a hole-punched Skippy jar, bare toes romped through cool grass, baseball cards hummed in bicycle spokes and the long days didn’t end until the streetlights came on well after dinner. Now, Georgia youngsters can barely dip a toe into August before they are yoked with bookbags and forced to schlep through stifling heat to climb onto even hotter school buses