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School's Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen
Summer not always the best
‘Read on to learn the problems we have during the summers in america’

Anna Quindlen wrote “School’s out for summer” to inform people about a problem we have in america and we do have a problem. Many people think as summer as a good thing no school, no waking up early, no more homework, but for some people summer is not the best thing for them some kids may not get to eat as much in the summer many kids eat lunch in school and even breakfast as it say in the text “fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school. And many of them get breakfast,too”. And that's just one of the problems.

One of the problem we have during the summer in america is that many households where both parents or even single

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