The school year has ended. But school is not over for my four children. All have brought home folders of summer homework that need to be completed before the first day of school in the fall. They will even be graded on it in elementary school. In high school, they will be tested on what they have read and given a grade that will be part of their first semester English grade. The summer homework is such a big deal that my child entering kindergarten even has a lot of material to cover.

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