We would like to see the school district of Lakewood Public Schools reestablish the school year start date to the last week of August, if not after Labor Day.

We firmly believe that summer break is an important time for the students of Lakewood Public Schools to grow through play, unstructured time, time spent with siblings, time spent outdoors, time spent engaging with family and engaging with the community around them. These are activities that can’t be measured as easily as reading and math ability, but are equally important. 

Once school begins the focus becomes largely academic and there is significantly less time to spend on these other, also important, activities. We would like to see summers returned to the kids by allowing them to keep August as part of the summer break. We have so little nice outdoor weather in Michigan. Let’s take summer break back for kids.