...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 I chose yes, because summer vacation is outdated.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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...brim with excited children bursting out of their 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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...Abstract School age children should be required to attend year-round school because its benefits go far greater than just the student does. A year round education will help students retain the information learned; it can assist teachers in time saving curriculum work after the school day; which will help improve the students test scores. This program can keep students occupied more because of the less extended break can prevent them from getting in trouble. This program could reduce the financial drain parents might be feeling as the nation is dealing with its hard times. Students attending year round schooling are likely to perform as well or even better than their peers enrolled in the tradition 9-month programs. Year-Round Education Introduction An education is the key component of society today. In the past, an individual could have little or no education and still succeed in the world. However, things have changed and in the world of added technology, limited jobs in the workforce and or a lower job security because of the finical hardship having and education is a plus. To ensure we stay on this path its starts with the youths of today and my belief is the need for year round education. I will look take a look at some of the policies in place, describe some of the various models of year round education, some advantages and disadvantages of the school calendar, effects on student achievement and family effects of the plan. With all this explained and said...
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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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...Year round school Last August, I was having the time of of my life with all my friends playing some backyard football. When suddenly a school ad came on the radio and we began to talk about school coming up.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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...do you feel about year round school? Today I am going to try to make you think that year round school is a good idea. A lot of people says that year round school is stupid most of those people have not even been to a year round school. Today I hope I will make you think like me. I have been to a year round school it was great with the longer 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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...attending school year round. People seem to think that if students are forced to go to school as long as students in other countries, they will be more studious. To be honest, I have always been interested in the lives of students who go to school all year. How can they stand being around their classmates and teachers all the time? Do they any get weekends off? Do they get any vacation time to be with their families? I wonder if the new arrangement will really make kids more interested in their studies. A lot people, including myself, feel that kids and teachers just need time to themselves. Also, people claim that the extended school time will leave less time for kids to get in trouble. While the argument is understandable, there is no guarantee that more school would keep kids out of trouble. If anything, depending on your child, it might get them time to get into even more trouble. Depending on how attentive the staff and administration of your child's school is, they could just cause problems there, and probably get away with more since there are no parents around. There has also been talk that students do not need the long break because they can forget what they learned in class. There have also been claims that students will be forced to study more and focus longer in class. For me, and many others with ADD, although possible, it would be quite difficult to do. Students who already take on lots of extracurricular activities will be too stressed out for school. One year I went...
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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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...Dark circles under the eyes, dragging feet, long yawns, tired expressions and outrageously messy bedhead are all descriptions for a modern student in school in the United States; furthermore, this student does not attend year around school. Try to conjure an clear image of what a student who goes year-round to school might look like: grotesque. Not only are students already tired and sleep deprived, they are yearning for snow-days and summer break. Thus, changing the school system to year around would certainly discourage, tire, and be an inconvenience for many attendees. Many educators and parents could certainly agree that students are overloaded and at the point of implosion, or explosion. For example, in curriculum students are increasingly...
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...Is year-round school a good fit for students? Before making a decision, the pros and cons of this educational system need to be reviewed. Students who go to a year-round school go to class the same number of days as kids on a conventional school plan. What’s the difference? A year-round school timetable is spread out more evenly throughout the year. “The 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...
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...Year-Round Education One of the big issues today in the United States seems to be school reform; everyone seems to agree that we need to improve our nation’s schools. There have been several solutions suggested, such as: reforming curriculum, implementing national tests, and improving the quality 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...
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...months to relax, but for some kids in the US they have to worry about going back to school in 15 days. Approximately 3,181 schools in the US offer year-round school and imagine you went to one of them. There is no point in 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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...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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...A. For some reason, schools all over are changing their programs to a year-round curriculum. The schools that have changed to be year-round shows that students and teachers no longer have the custom of two months of summer vacation. II. Body Paragraph: Year-round schools study A. There was a study done at two year-round schools versus two traditional calendar schools to see how this would be impacted. 1. There was a test done using the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test. There was a total of 256 elementary students that were included in the study, 48% of students were enrolled at year-round schools and 52% of the elementary students were traditional schools (Brown, 2010). B. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data, and Analysis...
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...A lot of schools today follow the same yearly calendar but there is another system of education some schools have chosen to participate in. School should be in session year-round because it will be beneficial to students. There is a contrast in views when it comes down to year-round schools, but the argumentation for them to be more commonly used is because they increase academic learning, keep children productive, and keep students and teachers focused. In contempt of what others think, academic learning will greatly increase. Year-round school will help students become scholarly and intellectual but the opposition begs to disagree. The opposition has provided in Kimberly Demucha Kalil’s article, “The Pros and Cons of Year-Round School” she...
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