(THE BEACH BOYS - "ALL SUMMER LONG") However,for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games.
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But thelongsummervacation acts like a mental eraser, with the average child reportedly forgetting about a month's-worth of instruction in many subjects and almost three times that in mathematics.
Some experts say lengthening the school year is more important, because there is ample evidence that some students, especially those who are low-income, suffer setbacks in their learning from being out of school during thelongsummervacation.
It is also very safe, family friendly, quaint and private, and this has long made it a top summervacation choice for the very wealthy, especially since real estate prices on Nantucket favor millionaires and billionaires, and it is one of the most expensive vacation communities in the country in which to buy a home.