The Benefit Of Year-Round School

In America most public schools go to school on a 10-month system established when America was mainly agriculture, and the children had to work in the fields during the summer. Year-round school was first used in the early 1900s to fight overcrowding and underfunding. It wasn’t until the 60s that year-round school was used again when a school in California became the first school to use it since 1904. I believe that the school schedule is fine the way it is. Some of the cons of year-round school are students can’t have summer jobs, most programs such as lunch and buses cost more, and extracurricular conflicts.

U.S. schools shouldn't switch to year-round school schedules for many reasons. Year round school can be unhealthy for kids for many reasons.

Year-Round school will take away businesses and will end up costing more than the traditional school calendar. YRS calendar would be the regular beginning of the year date and continue on from there and before the next school year starts the students would have only 2 weeks before school starts again to “be on vacation”, if you even want to call it that. The students grades depends on the teachers’ teaching abilities, it shouldn’t matter how long the school year is. If the student needs extended time for school, that’s what summer school is for. “Houston, Texas schools abandoned the YRS program after eight years because of the added expenses and no true relief from overcrowding or improvements

Schools around the U.S. are switching to a calendar called year-round school. Kids in year-round schools go to school from six to nine weeks without breaks and a two-to-four week break. There has been a debate on whether Florida should go to year-round or not. Florida should go to year-round school because there is less teacher and student burnout, and teachers would have to spend less time reviewing material that would be lost over summer break. Regular schools give teachers an advantage because it allows teachers more time to prepare for the next school year and finalize grades, but Florida should go to year-round school because the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

School has been around for a long time and has changed a lot. School was probably different for your ancestors, and what we know today is different than what it used to be. Some changes are good, and some are not,People across the country have different opinions about whether their school should switch to year-round school or not. Florida should not switch to year-round school because it makes it harder to plan sports activities or vacations, and students can’t concentrate as much at school with so many breaks in the way. Although year-round school offers more time for learning more and less reviewing, there are many more benefits from the original school schedule.

Year round schooling is not beneficial because it complicates schedules.With the year round schedules significantly different from traditional schedules students can slowley reduce there time that they usually spend with familes or friends that go to a different school.Year round schools operate on tracks to determine when each group gets there break.If one of your children were on one track,and their siblings were on a different one,the small break they do have from school they would spend seperated from their family.Year Round Schooling Explained b yEdweekly.org claims that “year-round schooling burdens parents, and takes away from students’ time to

Also, “without public support, year-round will fail because the parent’s reluctance to send their children” (Gee, 795). Parent reluctance comes from the lack of synchronized time off for vacation. Work schedules do not typically run on a 45/15 plan and without three months break, families lose time for a vacation. If a school decides to go year-round, communication between the community and school would have must be very clear as to when students are supposed to be in school (Wildman et al. 465).

For most people they don't like school. People look towards those nice long summer breaks. however a lot of things happen over the summer, the main thing that happens is that students tend to forget everything they learned during the previous school year. By the end of the the first month of summer, all that knowledge has leaked out of the brain. Then when the students return in the fall, the first month of school is wasted by re-teaching students what they should have already learned last year. It would be beneficial for students if every school went to year round school

In “District Dossier” by Jeff Archer he quotes Dawn Graff who is co-founder of a group that is perusing legal action against a school that had switched to the year-round calendar. Graff shares her concerns of the year-round school by saying “Parents are also concerned about the change’s effect on summer activities and child-care needs” (Archer). Then there are those like Frederick M. Hess in “Summer Vacation Is No Longer Necessary”, who is a resident scholar and director of education policy at AEI, mentions “It’s time to acknowledge that 19th-century school practices may be a poor fit for many of today’s families.” (Hess). Having frequent breaks at various times of the year means that a family who likes skiing could choose a schedule that has a break time during mid-January and use that time to vacation and ski without missing school while those in the traditional school would have to miss school in order to take a vacation during the middle of January. A big misunderstanding among most people is that a year-round school does not necessarily mean that children will literally be in school year-round. As mentioned in the article “Year-Round Education” by Glines “There are more than thirty possible calendar configurations, with more being invented as communities seek to meet their own unique environment” (Glines). With the wide variety of ways a year round school can set up the calendar, families can choose what option best suits their family and plan vacation or family

Schools across the country are switching to a year-round schedule. Little do they know many others are switching back to the traditional school calendar. Whether it's the parents, kids, or the teacher, change isn't easy on anyone. Many simply think of it as more school and no breaks but it's kind of the exact opposite. Year-round school is simply the same number of days off just in between and throughout the year. Ultimately switching to a year-round schedule would cause a rise in costs, and greatly affect kids who have summer jobs/vacations, thus creating a scheduling nightmare for kids, parents, and teachers alike.

A year round schedule is defined as “Instead of have one long summer break, year round schools break the academic year up with several medium sized, 2-3 week, vacations.” (Education Week) With a year round schooling curriculum, it makes it harder for students to keep a job. “Many high school students worry that they would not be able to take a summer job.” (pbs.org)

Why year round schooling? Year round schooling can benefit students in many ways. According to Education Week, it improves the educational experience of each student. Also, year round school prevents memory loss that usually occurs over long summer breaks (Zubrzycki, 2015). With year round schooling, students would attend school for approximately three months and get a three week break. The three week break is much shorter than a long summer break, thus preventing the memory loss students

Therefore raising the costs of the programs, along with causing many complications along the way. With the traditional schedule, it only has one 3-month break and not all those 3-week long breaks that come along with year-round

Over the many years schools have been trying to find the most efficient way for kids to learn. There has been everything from constant review, and going over past material to be able to teach the new. There is however a new way to get the kids to remember old material. And this method has been implemented into school schedules all over the globe. That method is year round school. Recent as well as past studies show that year round school is the most efficient productive way for kids to learn. It has been said that students tend to forget during 3 month long summer vacations (USA Today 7). There is evidence that supports this claim in the difference in test scores between schools with normal schedules, and schools who follow the year round guidelines.

The article by Leigh Anne Lytle accesses the question: Do students learn more and effectively in year-round schools or traditional calendar schools? In the article she states that more schools turn to year-round schools for many reasons. Interest in implementing year-round schools can be attributed to three advantages of a year-round calendar: increased student achievement; greater satisfaction among parents, teachers, and students and cost savings (McMillian, 2001). Studies have shown that year-round schools pros and cons with the transition of traditional schools to year-round calendar.