Some adults want to make summer break shorter. A month or two is plenty, they say. Students forget too much over the summer. And American kids need to spend more time in school to compete globally.
What do you think? Are long summer breaks a waste of time or not?
Make your case. Using a personal story to make your argument wins
points with us. Tell a story of how the long summer break paid off for you. Or how
it caused you problems.
The first-place winner receives $100. The first five submissions receive a cool, ThreeSixty T-shirt. ThreeSixty will no longer be awarding runner-up prizes.
The deadline for submissions is July 1.
By submitting your essay to the Your Turn contest, you give ThreeSixty the right to publish that essay on our web site. If there is sensitive content in the essay and you wish either the names of people mentioned in the essay or your own name to be kept secret, please request that at the bottom of your essay with a reason why.
