[malvim]

This makes sense. If you're very interested, it doesn't feel like an obligation, so a longer school year is like "more time doing what you like".

The problem is, like someone has already pointed out, schools fail to do this. So you end up with what we have here in Brazil. We've been making the school year longer every few years. When I was a kid, I used to have 3 months of vacation in summer and 1 month in the winter. Kids now have about a month in summer and 2 weeks in the winter, and education has never been worse here. Longer school years, by themselves, do absolutely NOTHING.

(EDIT: Grammar)