I would just like to give that kid a shout out for not flinching once despite all the audience outbursts except for cracking a minor smile at the end. Otherwise, I think things would be better with no summer vacation. There would probably still be breaks throughout the year when children could have small vacations. My cousins in India went to school all year round and not only are they very smart, but their high school ended when they were 15, so they started college that year. Ultimately, it would just save kids time to do things during those best years of your life:your early 20's. 

Ha! Well nobody tells you how long it takes to get you through college! =P

Let them suckers learn early.

It wasn't too long ago that I was in public school, and what I remember isn't ending the school year with tons of material left unfinished, or running out of time during class.  No, what I remember is a lot of wasted time.  I remember waking up and wishing it was okay to skip school because I knew I wasn't going to be doing anything in class that day besides doing homework in class and watching movies.  We don't spend nearly as much time in class during college as we did in K-12, our breaks are longer, and we learn a hell of a lot more.  If there is something so fundamentally flawed with our education system, why don't we try fixing it instead of just overwhelming children with what we already have?

Not to mention that this would either a) make it impossible for families to go on vacation together, b) force them to go at one of about 3 times during the year, making it ungodly expensive because short breaks are when rates are highest, or c) force families to take their children out of school in order to go on vacation.  I think it's absurd to expect people will chose the first option, economically asinine to expect them to take the second option, and utterly counterproductive to the supposed motive to have nearly all kids missing school for at least one week every single year, not even including absences due to illness, doctor's appointments, etc.

Doing away with summer break would also make it impossible for kids to get a job before they're 18, something that just doesn't make sense.  We're going to make the legal age to drive 16, but ensure that the only people who can afford to drive are either kids with rich and spoiling parents or kids who've been saving up their allowance since birth?  How are children supposed to learn the value of money, the pride of being able to buy things through your own hard work?

Do we actually expect kids to pay attention and sit at a desk for 8 hours straight?  I'm predicting more skipping, more sleeping in class, more disruptive behavior.  And that's not even including the students who know exactly how and where they've been screwed.

What about everything we're expected to do outside of school?  Extracurricular involvement or volunteering are nearly mandatory for colleges these days.  Sometimes I didn't get home from my activities until 9 anyway; how is this going to work with longer school days?  Kids in high school are learning to drive, but when are they going to have the time for 50 hours of supervised driving and all the other requirements for getting a license?

How are we supposed to do our homework and study?  This might actually impede progress.  Kids are already tired when they come home from school, now they won't have any time to rest before starting homework and they'll still be up late working on it. 

Not to mention, if we're going to have school during the summer, it's going to cost a fortune.  We'll have to equip tons of schools with air-conditioning, and we'll have to pay summer salaries for everyone who helps run the school-- that includes teachers, janitors, administrative staff, bus drivers, lunch ladies, you name it.  Additionally, since teachers don't make that much during the year, many of them work a second job during the summer.  This would put an end to that, and any extra money they might be making by working full-time.  Speaking of the things we'd be putting an end to by cutting out summer vacation, what about summer school?  When will we have sessions to help students who are falling behind?  Or is the plan that, once we implement this new system, there simply won't be anyone who needs those types of sessions?

More points later, probably.