American School Districts Should Implement A Longer School Year

The third reason why we shouldn’t have all year round –schools is because, its tradition to have 180 day’s strait with 3 months of breaks and it gives us more important things to do in the summer. According to Julia Sines, to have a 3-month summer and do more fun activities to do all summer is better than going to school year round. Kids want to go on vacations with their parents. Some athletic kids won’t be able to play travel sports. Scientist say that year round school kids drop out by their senior year (Sines). Most juniors and seniors work in the summer for money for colleges and to save up, but they won’t be able to get money. It’s more American to have 180 straight days with 3-month break. Billee Bussard stated, “It is an idea that has been tried and failed for more than 100 years,” (Sines). So talking to that quote, why would we start now. Kids love going outside and swimming and playing games and making money, but because the kids go to year round schools they only have 3 weeks to do these fun

To the counter-argument, Ballenger & Kneese say it best: “Of what value is there to a community of having most of its classrooms unused for fully 25% of the possible school days each year, when America 's students need more, rather than less, education?” As it stands, concerns concerning loss of learning over the extended summer break remain prevalent. Changing to a year-long school schedule would close that learning gap, allowing students higher retention. However, as Gabrieli states in Koonce (2015), even schools that add “25 percent more time each year – or the equivalent of three extra years of school for students” (p. 236) can achieve this increase merely by extending the school day with no adjustment in summer breaks. Expanded hours and days “can ensure at risk students keep up academically; develop attachment to school through such activities as sports, arts, and drama; and develop the beliefs and behaviors consistent with success” (p.236). The proponents of expanded learning time (ELT) may attest that “the greatest opportunity that expanded learning time offers for improving academic achievement comes from being able to better individualize instruction—putting the right teachers with the right students and focusing on the right skills” (Koonce, 2015). ELT allows students to learn that “through hard work, they can excel through the odds, but that [success] requires time” (Koonce, 2015). Supporters of expanded learning time argue that there is a sizeable benefit from

Imagine a place, and in this place, you got out of school. Then you had to go back to school one month later. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Like some of you reading this right now, if anybody is, is like what the heck, this can be real, are you sure you’re not just messing with me, or pranking me. Unfortunately, it’s true. There are schools across the U.S that have year-round school, and their breaks are shorter, especially the summer break, the best break of all. And because of this, we should not have year round school because it affects the kids, it affects the parents, and it affects the teachers.

To start with, if schools offered year round school, the kids wouldn’t forget as much information over the big, long, and fun summer. For example, if you go to balanced school year, yes you would have to go to school earlier, but you won’t have to review all the boring stuff from the previous year. In the long run it will help you out a lot. Also, you can be enjoying your extra-long break while other kids are in school, learning and being tortured.

Have you ever thought of what it would be like to have a year round school year, as oppose to having one long summer break. Before you go denouncing the idea, put some thought into it. Now the first “problem” with a 12 month school year is that, as you may think, you have many more days of school. Well this is commenly believed to be fact, it is not. Much less known about a year long school year is that summer break is split up into a short break every few months, so their is still the same amount of days, just in a longer timeframe. Secondly, we students know that we work hard, and I mean hard, in school. What if I told you that over summer break you lose, on average, ONE ENTIRE MONTH of knowledge. With a 12 month school year this problem

During the summer an equivalent of one month of overall learning is lost. By the end of sixth-grade students that experienced learning loss are an average of two years behind their peers. One of the educational topics under discussion addresses whether or not students should attend school year round with only a month off during the summer. Year-round schooling is beneficial because students retain more information, have frequent breaks to recharge, and will advance quicker.

A 3 month summer vacation may sound great, but in reality it doesn’t live up to the hype. Ironically, students are given this large vacation time, but it forces working parents to take time off when they have no other available supervision resources. Often times, they even have to come out of pocket every month, or commonly even every week, just to put their children in safe programs, camps, and clubs. Although when thinking of summer break, you generally foresee younger kids who cannot watch themselves. This doesn’t necessarily apply to teenagers, but year-round schooling is balanced wisely and offers more breaks periodically, which arguably benefits everything; benefits toward all sides of the spectrum, moreover from Financials, parental

Have you ever realized that most students forget everything they learned from during their school year when they go on long breaks such as summer vacation? Maybe that could change. School time should be extended and the school year should be longer to improve academic scores and overall performance on school work.

The average American’s summer break includes exciting or leisurely vacations with the family, cookouts with the neighbors, tanning (or burning) at the pool, and watching fireworks on the 4th of July. Although the typical kid eagerly anticipates this season, not everyone gets to enjoy a long summer break. About 4% of America’s education systems have implemented year-round schooling in which the summer break is swapped out for shorter breaks throughout the year (Kelsey). Though some believe year-round schooling is a better method than the traditional 9 month schedule, it produces problems for both teachers and students.

Most importantly, improving the U.S. educational system by increasing the time attending school will not improve the countries education. Why? The summer breaks are designed to allow the students and educators to take a break before the next school year. Many students and teachers are suffering from 'school burnout' and need the time to relax and

Dear School Board, eliminating summer and shortening breaks would not help the us in any way. Lengthening the time we're in school would put a substantial amount of stress on us. We wouldn't have time to find a summer job either.

Such as, they argue that there is no conclusive benefits of year round or extended school. Although some might believe this according to Tracy Hueber it has been found that the schools truly are helping students, “The research also indicates that when year-round schooling has resulted in higher academic achievement, the schools in question are usually doing more than just rearranging the school calendar. These schools are also providing remediation and enrichment for students during the breaks so that students have opportunities to relearn material, practice skills, catch up, or experience non academic enrichment activities continuously throughout the year (McMillen, 2001).” Another issue people may consider, is summer programs will suffer. While this might be true, students need to prioritize their values, and education should be at the top. Students shouldn’t worry about going to a summer camp when they can have the opportunity to enrich their education and be more successful in their futures. Lastly, a counterclaim many authorities believe is that no matter how long of a break the student has they will forget the information, but having a shorter break will help the students remember information. Shorter more frequent periods of breaks will help students understand and learn much more do to the limit of time the brain has to forget before being reminded

Summer vacation is probably what 100 percent of students look forward to at the end of year. Having school should not be year round because one will not necessarily need to retain the information they learned last year to benefit them the next year, one will have the risk of being extremely stressed out, and one won't have time to be with family or friends.

Imagine obtaining good grades in school, not having to jam everything into your head every day like canning peaches in a jar. Visualize having a longer school year, but you learn everything at your own pace, not at your teacher’s speed. Picture yourself sitting in the living room, watching Spongebob on your television; sipping an ice-cold can of Squirt instead of going to summer-school, where you cram everything you learned that year in you head again, except you only have three months instead of nine. Would you want to spend all of your summer at school? I didn’t think so. I believe that school years in the U.S. should be lengthened to 210 days instead of 180 days because the pros outweigh the

The school year should not be extended because kids need a break from school. If too much work is givin to students, we should be very stressed. In the article President Obama: school year must be extended by months for U.S students to compete with China,India. President Obama said that an addtional month will make a differance. I disagree because I don't think kids would learn a lot in just a month.