Year-Round School

Imagine if you had a 3 week vacation every 8 weeks. This is what happens during year round schooling. Whether or not Florida schools should convert to year round schooling is a recent problem. Florida schools should convert to year round schooling because it keeps the learning process going and gives students/staff breaks throughout the year. Many people believe it may cause problems with other schools but the benefits outweigh the problems and Florida needs to switch to year round school.

Year-round schools have gained popularity among the United States, being a very communicated topic within middle class communities. These schools are generally argued about by whether they are beneficial or not. While there are many advantages to year-round schools, there are some disadvantages as well. A few of these disadvantages include the expenses of the schools, the schedules the schools provide, the involvement within the schools, and the actual effectiveness of these schools.

Did you know that year-round schools in Wake County of North Carolina ended up in the supreme court? Of course not all year-round school ended up in the supreme court, but there are a lot of negative thoughts about year-round school, and mistaken for having less breaks. Year-round Education, short for YRE, is a pretty efficient method, but it can block students from doing all those activities that they can do, like going on a long term vacation. No students would want to work in burning, hot classroom in August. Students would get tired of going to school if they get a such short breaks.

Summer break is supposed to be a time of rest and rejuvenation for students. After nine months of hard work and challenging classes, one would think such a long break could do nothing but good for students; however, this is not the best way for young minds to learn. A three month break is far too long for children to go without proper education and supervision. Instead of a long three month break at the end of each school year, why not give students the same number of days off but spread them out more frequently throughout the year? Year-round education is a more efficient, globally competitive, and fair alternative to the traditional nine month school year.

Most students enjoy summer vacation, but some educators feel that the summer break is too long and that students do not retain information as easily when they return in the fall. Some people argue that there should be year-round schools, where there would by a 3-4 week break in the summer, a long winter break, and a week off in the spring and fall. I disagree with those people. The biggest problem with this schedule would be the summer break, it just isn’t long enough. I believe year-round school is a bad idea because summer break is a time when students get to take a break, parents may not be able to find a caretaker during the shorter breaks, and schools may not have sufficient funds.

Industries such as business and medicine depend on extreme methods and forward thinking ideas. To be a successful enterprise, one must be willing to take risks and try new things. Within the last century, education has attempted to take a leap of faith by completely flipping the traditional school schedule and idea of summer vacation upside down. Just as with any idea, there are advantages and disadvantages as well as supporters and opponents. Each district must look at their own individual needs and evaluate the trials from schools that have gone before them to decide if year-round schooling would benefit their school.

Have you ever wondered what the difference between traditional schooling and year-round education is? Maybe you didn’t know that there are more than one type of year-round education. A year-round school schedule can benefit educators, students, and even families. Year-round schooling is where the breaks in school are on a balanced schedule. Instead of having a three month summer break, there would be 60 days off and then the students would be back to school. If on a multi track schedule, teachers could use their off time to substitute at their school on a different track or at another school to get paid more. For students, the shorter breaks away from school increase retention rates, therefore reducing the amount of review necessary at

Have you ever thought about how year-round schooling can be beneficial to students? In today’s society, many school districts have been switching from a standard school year to year-round schooling. Year-round schools follow the basic 180 day school year, but the days are more spread out throughout the year following the 45-15 method. Forty five days of school, followed by fifteen day breaks. Year-round schooling is beneficial to many because it prevents students from gaining unwanted weight and causes less stress for teachers and students.

In the article,” The Pros and Cons of Year-Round School” it states that by taking summer away that this could help the students have more time to understand the material. In addition, they say that by taking summer away it helps students not to forget anything that they learn the year prior. This shows that students could excel more in school if summer breaks were gone. Also in the article, “The Pros and Cons of Year-Round School” states that the summer break given to the students is too long. The students have almost nothing to do. Some do go on vacations, but not a lot do. This shows that this would be the prime opportunity to get rid of summer, and do a year round school. Sure people believe that this should happen, but is that really the right way to go

Some schools in the United States have been switching to a year round school calendar instead of the traditional school calendar. How would children in the USA feel if their school year became year round? The year round schedule dictates schools use a 45-15 schedule in which every 45 days students get a 15 day break including weekends. Unlike the traditional calendar, which includes 60 days of summer break, holidays and weekends. Students and parents won't be able to do activities or vacation together using the year round schedule. The traditional school calendar is better than the year round school schedule.

This is one reason that we should not have year round school in the United States. Year round schools don't learn any more than the kids in traditional nine month school calendar. The article says,"Students in "year-round" schools don't learn more than their peers in traditional nine-month schools, new research has found." This shows that kids in year round school don't learn any more then kids in the nine month school calendar. If kids don't learn any more than their peers than they shouldn't have to go to year round school. Kids in school deserve to have a summer vacation to hang out with friends and family and to be able to travel.

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

The summer heat is beating on the aquatic blue pool while kids splash and play like dolphins jumping in and out of the water while the lifeguard stands have young-adults who are working their first Summer job. This is how Summer has been with the traditional school year, but the summer dream is being threatened with a new type of school year called year-round schooling. This takes away summer by replacing it with smaller breaks that would be regulated depending on the number of days you go to school. The idea is that it would provide a way to increase education rates and fix the problem of overcrowding, and currently it has only done one of these things. Schools should avoid switching to year round schooling due to its lack of an educational benefit, its economic

Imagine going to school for a whole year. A nightmare, right? I think that students should not go to school all year-round. Since 2007, there has been a rise of “...about 26 percent...” in year-round schools. To start off, three reasons to continue traditional school instead of year-round is that year-round schools have short preparation time, planning vacations can be hard, and it can be confusing for new students. To start off, preparations can be difficult for teachers, because the subsequent year might be only be a couple weeks away. In addition, most of that time is taken up with “ ...finalizing grades and report cards…”. This leaves little to no time for planning. The lack of time to plan might lead to the students learning only a little

Many concerns regarding academic failure within the United States regarding the inability to rival other countries, has greatly increased yearly due to the lack of clear support for teachers and students within the Traditional School Calendar. With the implementation of the Year – Round or “Balanced Calendar”, students have been given the opportunity to close those unnecessary gaps between school years and begin to even out “in-school” time throughout the year. Many parents and teachers consider this division of time conflicting when dealing with scheduling of community programs or additional summer employment opportunities, along with the cost becoming too great to keep students within the walls of the school for longer periods of time.