...friends are one in a million. There’s always too much to do and too little time. Students of all ages are facing a new level of pressure to take the hardest classes, do extracurriculars, and work on those things in any spare time in order to compete with their piers. The thought of summer break is often times the only thing that gives a student any hope of a good night's sleep and a chance to decompress. Students should be given the opportunity to take the summer off from learning new things because the assignments never end up being beneficial and can give the student a false preface of what the class has to offer....
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...At this point, the schools’ intersession breaks, which have previously been mentioned, may come in handy because each intersession can act as a short summer school. Students could use these intercessions as a tutoring period as well. Particularly if the school operates a multitrack schedule because a portion of teacher would always be around to assist students. A portion of teacher would be on school grounds because some if not all of the school's facilities are used on an offset year-round schedule. Aside from allowing for an extra tutor/learning period, shorter breaks can benefit a student in terms that it cuts down on summertime boredom that most students would experience during summer vacation. An increase in shorter breaks also brings...
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...traditional calendar is divided into nine months of instruction and three of vacation during the summer. Year-round calendars break these long instructional/ vacation blocks into a pattern of sixty days of instruction followed by twenty days of vacation.” (CA Dept of Education). Students who receive more frequent breaks don't receive a customary ten to twelve-week summer break. Removing any kind of long break from school can enhance a child’s educational accomplishment. Long summers are known for "summer slide," or the decay of cerebral abilities and loss of information throughout the longer break. Summer-slide is different across grade levels, subject matter and family income, according to the National Summer Learning Association. However, it still affects all children in some way. If a student does not have a long break, it helps prevent summer learning loss. Summer learning loss is a significant issue for children. All children – rich or poor - experience a slide in math over the summer. The slide is different for everyone. Despite the fact that it may appear fun, an extended summer break can frequently prompt weariness. Year-round school wipes out the need to fill the twelve weeks of summer break with exercises to keep children intrigued and locked in. If the summer break is not organized, then it seems too long. Great deals of children don’t have enough to do in the summer. However with the pros, come the cons? The most evident disadvantage of year-round school is the...
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...This gave me chills especially because I did not know anything about the upcoming school year.Weeks later, sure enough it was the first week of my junior year and the most dreaded words a high schooler wants to hear is “pop quiz” or “test” and like I thought it was on what we knew from last year. As I was taking the quiz I could remember nothing but summer fun. As we got our quizzes back I realized I had failed. And as I thought we were going to review last year for the first couple weeks I was wrong we jumped right into this year's curriculum...
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...Should You Give Up Summer Break? Many people ask, if your children should have year round school. I chose yes, because summer vacation is outdated. If you stop having school break you could take forever to get back to what you were learning before. Keeping schools open all year round could take pressure off of children to catch up. The first reason why we shouldn’t have summer break is because it would take forever to catch up. According to Sindhu Nair, it would avoid teachers and students getting burnt out with more frequent breaks. In addition, Students think of year-round schools to be no summer traditions, but you still get summer camps and beach vacations. As well as, Year- round schools allow you to have communication with your family and friends. Nair says, you get the same calendar and you also get the same holidays off. (Nair) However, students are being required for academic support to get more immediate...
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...Introduction Paragraph The comforting sound of winter break for example, a week long period where you can catch up and enjoy the time off. Who wouldn’t love having more days off during the school year? Year-round schooling allows schools to have a two week long break every month and a half. The traditional school year requires students to attend school, with two breaks, until summer. Year-round schooling allows students to have a more flexible schedule. Every school should switch to year-round schooling because it allows students to retain memory, have intercessions at the most vital times, and provide a stress-free learning experience. Body Paragraph #1 An important part of performing well in school is retaining material obtained throughout...
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...spring and winter break there was a lot more time for me and my family and friends to hang out. Year round school is great idea to help kids.now you will see my point of view. Do you think I can change your mind? I think yes. People think that just because your summer shorter that year round school is terrible. Spring break instead of being one or maybe two weeks it is a three week break....
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...using a year-round system can cause planning of field trips and meetings to be more difficult, while trying to work around the schedule of school. Versus using a traditional system, scheduling of such events is less troublesome. Camps, school, and other organizations held during the summer are in jeopardy of suffering due to school being held throughout the entire year. Not only should schools keep in mind families’ views, school sports, and organizations offered through the school, they should also contemplate the cost for families attending the school. Cost for the families may include money for a daycare while school is not in session. Short term childcare is expensive. In some cases, families cannot...
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...respective schools and into their favorite part of the year: summer break. The following three months are filled with exactly what those enrolled in school want–no pressure to perform academically. Though the majority of the United States is in agreeance with the traditional structure, the population of year-round supporters is ever growing. The United States is steadily losing the ability to compete globally in academia, therefore more and more citizens are looking to eliminate summer break in lieu of a year-round schedule. Although this may help with the issue, it also is eliminating much of the freedom American children have. Summer...
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...of teachers. One specific solution may be to change the school calendar from the traditional school session of nine months, to a year-round term. Supposedly, this new calendar better facilitates learning. Year-round education has the potential to bring economy, accountability, and educational efficiency to the schools. While Year-Round schooling can save money, the impact on academic achievement is uncertain (Graves, McMullen and Rouse). This type of school system impacts students, teachers, parents and the community in both positive and negative ways. The traditional school calendar has been in effect for more than a century. Students have relied on a 180-day school year with a long summer vacation. Originally, the school calendar was organized so that children would have the summer off to help their parents work on the farm. Although most communities no longer depend heavily on agriculture and children no longer carry on the responsibilities they once did, our society continues to follow the traditional school calendar. The debate surrounding YRE (Year-Round Education) generally focuses on five broad categories: professional staffing and development, administrative issues, student achievement, parental and community concerns, and cost factors (Opheim, Mohajer and Read). The term “Year-Round Education” may be misleading. It doesn’t mean that students attend school Monday through Friday all year long. As Elaine Warrick-Harris states, “perhaps a better name for...
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...Year round school isn’t the greatest option to better educate students. Breaks are a good way for students and teachers to figure out and plan what they want to do. Students could also use breaks as motivation. Without motivation grades will drop or students will drop out. There could be a better solution without having to eliminate summer vacation altogether. Summer break gives students time to relax and get away from school pressure. It gives them time to get away from bullies and just think things through also. 14% of high school students have considered suicide and 7% have attempted it according to http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/. The percentages could be much higher without time to get away from in school pressures. Summers give students...
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...Year round school is the new best option for schooling offered for children and their education. By continuing school year round, students are less likely to have any summer learning loss which helps them as they continue year after year of schooling. Students that live in low income-families will be benefited as this keeps them out of trouble and they will retain the information better. The new school schedule would provide breaks more often which would keep the students and teachers refreshed and ready to learn/teach. Year round school is the more ideal option for what the school calendar should be now for all children and teachers in America. All of us can agree that during the school year teachers and students have been exhausted at one point in time or another. This new schooling schedule would consist of students attending the same number of days as students on a traditional calendar schedule. Instead of long summer breaks, students attending year-round school would be given multiple three-week breaks more often versus a 3-month break once a year. This would allow students and teachers to stay more refreshed throughout the school year and be...
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...is what gets you started, [but] habits keep you going”. This is true for a lot of things; sports, eating habits, and academic habits. But it is almost impossible to keep up a steady academic habit over summer break. You are surrounded by distractions and the next school year seems like decades away. After all you have nothing but time on your hands. Consequently you lose 2.6 months of math over summer because you didn’t practice any positive habits. With year round schooling you would get the benefits of coming to school, the knowledge of last years learning, and longer winter spring and fall breaks. A year round schedule is the best possible way for teachers and administrators to insure the mental and physical health of all students. Some children depend on the benefits they are given at school to thrive. More than 30 million children are forced to take advantage of the free or reduced prices for lunches given at school for those that come from low income households. This might be there only nutritious meal of the whole day. What happens to those children on the three month long break from their best source of food. With a year round schedule, children are able to get meals over the summer, instead of going hungry. Also most low income...
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...year-round school therefore why have it? Kids deserve a real summer break, not just 15 days. Year-round school does not help kids test scores go up. And lastly, year-round school costs way more money than regular calendar schools. Year-round schooling is just not a good idea. Kids need a real summer break for all the hard work they do in school, but some kids don’t get that. Instead, they’re stuck with only 15 days to relax before going back to school and no time to hang out with friends or sleep in late. And schools need the summer to repaint rooms and clean out the school before it starts again. But with year-round school schools never really get a chance to do that. Jessica Fletty, a mother says, “Honestly, I am against it. My oldest is in first grade and I think they need that bit of a break.” Even though kids with a regular school schedule go to school the same amount of time as year-round school students, kids should get a break. Why have a bell that will just remind kids they’ll be back in another 15 days?...
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...States is ranked number four in education on the Human Development Index (Education Index). A topic moving up the ladder in educational advancement are/is school schedules. Promotion of a yearlong school schedule is on one side and preserving a student’s summer vacation is on the other. The children in the school systems now will eventually be responsible for (Quite a burden for them! How is this accurate?-the advancement or the regression of the human race). A more efficient teaching system is key for positive results. A yearlong school schedule prevents memory loss, lessens the burden on students and teachers, and doesn’t conflict with relationships developed during the summer. Traditional school schedules consist of nine months of class and three months of summer vacation resulting in memory loss between each grade. A student’s brain is rigorously active from August to May. As soon as school is let out for summer break, the student’s exposure to activities that stimulate the brain at that level are minimal. The three-month vacation acts as an eraser. This is particularly apparent in classes that build on each other such as algebra. A student may do well in their Algebra I course, however when they return from summer break they struggle in their Algebra II course due to memory loss. A study on a mathematics course supports this. Karen Higgins studied three classes of students taking mathematics. Her findings state, “Compared with the students who had traditional mathematical...
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