s, we have directors at my school, a small school in brighton, alabama. host: what kind of things did you doer 0er -- do over the summer? caller: we went on vacation. i would visit my relatives in selma, alabama. we had activities, baseball, softball. you just cleared your mind of all your school activities so you would be fresh and don't mind going to school, you liked it, you enjoyed it. guest: the research shows, and this goes back to 1906. there are over 30 empirical studies that show young people are at risk of experiencing setbacks when they're not engaged in constructive activities and for many parents and many families they are able to turn on a faucet of opportunities for those trips, enrichment, reading, all of those kinds of things, families are able to do that because they have the resources to do that because they have those opportunities available. many families don't. the question then becomes how do you make sure that all kids have some kind of opportunity for constructive opportunity so they don't experience the setbacks, so we don't have