A Georgia state Senate study committee is recommending giving students a longer summer break, which would mean starting school closer to Labor Day and going through June 1st.
Most of the state Senate committee says it will benefit Georgia's tourism businesses since families would have more time to vacation in August.
Peach County Superintendent Lionel Brown says there's never really a school calendar that pleases everyone.
After speaking to several superintendents in surrounding counties, he says they can agree that any changes to the calendar should be handled locally.
"Every school district is unique -- we make our school calendar based off of certain situations that are indicative of Central Georgia," Brown said.
Brown says having a three-month-long summer would take away from other vacation days throughout the school year.
"The national fair over in Perry, it falls right there in line with our fall break, or does our fall break fall in line with the fair? Either way it goes, it's beneficial to everybody and it works for us," Brown said.
Under state law, school districts must be in session for 180 days a year.
The Senate committee says longer summers will help Georgia tourism Georgia by allotting more vacation time in August
"I could see the benefits of it, but I think losing local control of our calendar would hurt more than it would help," Brown said.
Minnie Booker, a mother of two, says it would be hard to balance family and work without help from her parents.
"Parents who don't have a support system, that can kind of fill in the gap during the summer when parents do have to work, that might be a problem for some of those parents," Booker said.
O'Sheta Harris, whose son is a Peach County High football player, prefers a later start.
"I don't want to think about school shopping in July, so I really wish that they will attend school after Labor Day," Harris said.
Either way, Superintendent Brown thinks the decision should be up to the local school district, not the state.
Cherokee County School District surveyed over 8,000 of its parents and over 2,500 of its employees. 80 percent of the parents and 86 percent of the employees voted against school starting after Labor Day.