Vacation not fun time for every child: summer schools hope for more support
Elementary school principals are concerned about the lag in cognitive and social skills that children from poorer backgrounds and with low-educated parents fall behind during summer vacation, which is why more and more schools in the Netherlands are organizing summer schools. The popularity of these summer schools increased due to the corona pandemic due to extra budgets from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), but from 2026 the budget will be cut, causing concerns about the long-term approach to this problem.