Argumentative Essay On Year Round School

In his article “Go Year-Round: A Push for True Summer School”, Milton Chen, the executive director of Edutopia, urges readers to use the year-round schooling system. He explains in brief words what the summer vacation was for. “…when farm families needed young people home during the summer months to replace the three R's with the two P's -- plantin' and pickin' " (Chen). He carries on discussing that the problem with the school days is not only the amount, but the schedule of the school day. The curriculum is too tight; neither the students nor the teachers have the time to step away from the books and text and learn from the outside. The students do not have the chance to go into the outside world and observe what is going on in the society that they live in. Additionally, the teachers do not have the chance to decide how their time is spent because it is spent on the strict schedule of the classroom.

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.

The first reason why kids should have a summer break is that it makes school less complicated. According to Jennifer Brozak, a disadvantage of having a year round school is that the school budget has to increase. They will need to have more fundraisers in order to keep the school going. If they neglect to get the amount of money they need they sometimes cancel and let the students have a summer break. In addition, teachers are having difficulty with planning lessons for students and grading papers in a short amount of time they have (Brozak). In addition, Brozak says, because of the short amount of time teachers have to grade papers they are prone to burnout. This is one of the reasons that schools should have a summer break because both teachers and students’ mental pressure because of work (Brozak). As a student, I can say that breaks will be necessary to recharge and prepare myself

Imagine a school year that gave the students one week off after every quarter and every Friday off. Does this sound exciting and rich with possibilities? Then ask the superintendent of the school district to consider year round school with only four days per week.First, students would not forget what they learned over the long summer. Next, parents would not have to get day care except on Fridays instead of the whole summer. Finally, teachers and students would have better relationships as they spend more time together instead of being rushed. Let’s take a look at some proof.

Year round school eliminates regression of learning due to extended time off. Having a year round school can reduce what people known as summer learning loss ("The Pros"). Almost every child will experience a decrease in their math over the time of summer break each summer break ("SUMMER LEARNING"). “On an average students lose two months of reading skills over summer” ("SUMMER LEARNING"). After

Have you ever thought of attending year-round school? Although many schools in the U.S have year-round school saying it’s better for for the children's education. Most of the children say the short 15 day breaks actually interrupt the learning flow. Plus it puts more pressure on the teachers for the next school year. In this essay you’ll be reading why kids shouldn’t have year-round school by explaining what year-round school is, how it affects the kids, what the teachers feel about it, and more, hopefully by the end of this essay you’ll agree.

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

Another reason in the article “Schools should be year round” that Students in year-round schools are less likely to have to miss school for a trip that isn’t in the summer. This meaning that they can have their long vacation in the summer because they’ll have a long summer break than just on breaks, for example Spring and Winter break. I think that year round schooling is a great idea and has many

They also say that the breaks refresh students. The latter can't be true; the article from Scholastic says that students think the breaks are disruptive. As for the first so-called “advantage”, the article by NEA states that “... [A]lthough one of the main reasons for switching to year-round school is to improve student achievement, there is no concrete proof that students improve academically.”(NEA). That means switching to a year-round schedule is like taking a blindfolded leap off a cliff: no one really knows what’s at the bottom. Florida can’t afford to make the dire mistake of switching. This school system shouldn’t buy the claims. Of course, if they do switch, no one will have enough money to buy

Some say year-round school doesn't give students enough time to unwind. That is an imprecise statement. Students who don't have enough time to “unwind,” avoid the summer “brain drain.” A summer brain drain is when students that go to a regular school with a 2-3 month summer forget a lot of what was learned in the previous school year. So as you can see, year-round school is the way to go. Other people say that year-round school is expensive. This is not an accurate statement. Actually, year-round school can help save money. It can help save money because the administrators don't have to hire as many personnel. This is why year-round school is better.

School’s Should switch to the year round schedule because it will benefit both teachers and students. This schedule would help students avoid what many call the dreaded brain drain, since there are more frequent short breaks, we will not forget everything from the previous school year and will not have to review previous lessons during the first month of school. Students will feel more prepared after these short breaks because we will have more time to study and catch up on things that we might have missed out on or just didn’t understand. Teachers will be able to catch up on grading papers that they have fallen behind on and can prepare for the next grading period.

Statistics show that there has been a 544 percent increase in year-round implementations from the year 1987 to 2014. That is a huge problem! Why? Doing away with the traditional school calender is causing distress in families and teachers lives. It is cutting into the students Summer extracurricular activities, destroying family plans, and affecting teachers badly. The year-round calender is a terrible idea. The idea for this new calender should go away.

It’s probably safe to say that hearing the last bell before summer break might be a student’s favorite sound, but summer break might be causing students more harm than good. Year round schools might be the answer to solving some problems in our education system. Non-traditional schooling may help by benefitting low income and working families. It could also make school more enjoyable to children, which in turn causes them to perform better. And year round fixes the problem of “ Brain Drain,” that summer break presents. Though not very common right now with only 10% of public school students attending a school with a year round model, and only six states having the type of school, (Niche) they are gaining in popularity, which means that we must start looking at the benefits with this type of school possibly becoming a permanent fixture someday.

School shouldn’t be year round because it deprives students of real world experiences, quality family time, and puts stress on teachers. Kids who attend year-round school have the same number school days and hours during the day. However year-round school extends over a yearly calendar with shorter breaks. Beside the fact that breaks are being cut schools offer more breaks to make up for it. School is a big part of our future and whether it is year-round or not effects us.

After trying Year Round Education parents and students actually like and enjoy Year Round Education. Studies show that 50% of parents are for Year Round Education before it’s implemented; almost 80% are in favor after the first year.(Skinner)” This significant increase in support shows parents are in favor of Year Round Education.Also, Elizabeth Palmer, project director at the center for