Summer is fun right? But perhaps people want some days off in the Winter of the Spring for seasonal activities. With a year round school style, there are days off all over the year so students could experience time off in seasons when it isn't hot or raining. The traditional school calendar with a large Summer break is an old system that existed when children were needed to harvest, but that is not exactly a huge problem anymore with advances in technology. Some knowledge is lost over a long Summer
Mrs. Bakken 10 March 2015 Year-Round school is a no go Districts do not think about students when deciding to have year round school. Year round school is not all it seems to be. Although some districts believe it will help improve grades and test scores, it has been proven that it does not. Schools across the country deciding to do year round schooling, should think twice about it. They do not think about what different things students could experience outside of school, during the summer. They
in the year-round education system. A more recent study, performed in the early 2000’s, shows that over 2 million students are enrolled in year-round schooling. There are three main reasons that may attract students and parents to a year-round school, rather than a traditional one. The performance level, cost, and job opportunities are main factors for a family’s decision to put their child in a year-round school. The performance level of year-round schools, or students enrolled in year-round schooling
taught in the form of year-round schooling. Year-round schooling is a type of schooling in which students have classes all year-round. One thing that makes year-round schooling different is instead of having one long summer break, you have multiple smaller breaks in between 45-50 day intervals of learning (Inger). Year-round schooling is the ideal option for the future of your child. Year-round schooling is better than traditional schooling because attending this type of school will not only improve
A year round school calendar has been applied to 3,181 schools throughout the United States of America. Supporters of year round school say that a traditional school year wastes time students could be using to study. Is this really the right way to go? Year round school makes it hard for athletes to have a job, takes away life experiences, and removes the stress relief summer vacation provides. A high school student is usually involved in many different extracurriculars. Sports is a common one with
Year Round School: A Better Option? In 2007, over two million students attended year-round school in the United States. This number accounted for 4 percent of the student population; a tremendous increase from 0.7 percent in 1986. Underneath this growing trend is a strong debate. Do students really need year round schooling? Proponents argue that year round schooling improves students’ academic achievement and learning retention. However, year round schools should not be an option because it shortens
Having a year round school will be more beneficial in life than traditional schooling. When students hear the term “year round school”, they tend to think that school will be for a year. Year round does not mean less vacation time, instead students get more. Students attend school for nine weeks and then get three week vacation breaks with five weeks off during the summer. Year round can be either a single track or multi-track schedule. A single-track schedule generally calls for an instructional
How many kids do you know that would prefer going to school year for the whole year rather than the typical nine months? Year round school works either on a single track schedule, or a multi-track schedule. On a single track schedule all schools in the district would be on the exact same schedule; whereas on the multi-track schedule the schools would all be on different schedules. To avoid a huge inconvenience, to keep school cost effective and to make the most out of the time we are given, we should
Year round education will help a lot of people achievement there goals. It will also be another way to simplify our concerns with our education. Schools should all be on the same track. It should be established where all students are on the same page with one another and get the same holidays out of school. Going to school all year round is much more like summer school. Most of the time, we forget most of the work we learned after the three month vacation. Therefore, student achievement would increase
the school year, but what if it wasn’t one big break everyone looked forward to, but many breaks throughout the school year? Many students do not take the time to sit down and refresh their memory throughout the extensive summer break, and dread when they must return to school. Teachers have to schedule weeks of lengthy review periods to catch up on the knowledge that was lost during the break. To prevent this from happening continuously, the topic year round schooling gets brought up. Year round