What widens the gap is the two months of summer vacation

Summer has begun, and the children around me are going through various summer schools. It is difficult for children to make appointments for parties… Will not being able to attend summer schools have any impact on children? Until one day I saw a TED talk, which clearly told me the importance of summer school. The speaker was Karim Abouelnaga, the second of seven children raised by a single mother on government assistance in Queens, New York. In similar low-income families in the United States, he and his siblings could only go to some poor public schools in New York. In seventh grade, he was absent from school more than 60 times. He eventually got into an Ivy League university. After he was admitted to college, he told his good friends that their teachers had always told them that if they wanted to go to college, they had to raise their hands to speak. My friend said it was incredible because his teacher would only ask him, which university do you want to go to? Others asked him, how did you get into college? He always said he was lucky. When he remembered that his older brother, who had graduated at the same time as him, had dropped out of a two-year college, he began to think about real education. In affluent families, when children have learning difficulties, it is very likely that parents or teachers will help them, even though the children do not ask for help. But for poor families, no one will help them. He began to create a new education system based on his own experience. He started in the summer. Surveys show that two-thirds of the achievement gap, the gap in educational outcomes between rich and poor kids, or the gap between black kids and white kids, may be directly attributable to a lack of summer school learning. In poor communities, children in one summer forget almost all of the three months they learn during the school year. When they return to school in the fall, teachers will have to spend another two months re-teaching them old knowledge, which works out to five months. American schools have ten months of learning a year, and if children lose five months of learning each school year, they only get half the education, only half. In his view, the short two-month summer vacation is the most important time in the school year. So, based on his own experience, he created his summer school to serve poor communities. This is not the point. The point is that he told us that these two months of summer are very important for children. What we need to do is to make these two months effective.