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Should Schools Switch To Year-Round School?

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Should schools switch to year round schooling? Recently many schools have been switching from the original nine month calendar to a schedule that is spread out through the year. Schools should keep the traditional nine month calendar compared to switching to the balanced calendar. Because of the switch, it has become hard for scheduling matters such as sports, band, and other extracurricular activities. It also affects tasks like summer school and credit recovery that go on throughout the summer months. Year round schooling can also influence what happens during a student's short summer break. There are times when students plan to get a job, but they are unable to due to the shortened summer break and frequent breaks through the school year.
A sport season at school typically lasts a few months, but depending on the sport it may be longer or shorter. With frequent two to three week breaks it makes it hard to schedule practices and games. It is difficult for some students to make it to such games and practices because their time off can be used for vacations. The constant breaks can also affect band students who have out of school competitions that may fall on the weeks off …show more content…

They believe that with a shorter summer break and more breaks mixed in the school year, students will retain more of the information taught to them without loosing it in the summer. However, there is no proof that students in a balanced calendar learn more than students in a regular nine month calendar (Grabmeier). “Over a twelve-month period, average test score gains were less than 1 percent larger in year-round than in nine month schools” (Grabmeier). The test scores between year round schools and nine month schools show no significant difference. There is not a reason to switch to a balanced calendar because of little to no academic achievement

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