Longer School Year

Non-stop school for 45 days? Thats what kids would have to deal with if they had a year round school. Whether Florida should be a year round school has been a debate for some time now. Florida should not be a year round school because it has a different schedule than highschools, and when a student finally starts something they would forget it with a 5 day vacation. Even though it gives students a break, that would make it so that students can’t get deeply into something.This is why Florida should not have a year round schools.

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 education (YRE) is implemented in 436 U.S. school districts with very few complaints. In fact, school districts that have been participating in YRE and extended school days (ESD) are raving about the benefits in pupil's achievement level, their new found enthusiasm in learning, as well as the many programs that exist in the extended day promoting the decline in latch key children.

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.

This is how the Year-Round School format would work. Students would attend school for a certain amount of days, and then the students would receive a longer break period. This would be repeated all year long. Primarily, the education administration is taking the summer break and splitting it equally throughout the year (nayre.org). The school districts that Year-Round School will help students, yet it may actually hurt them socially. For example, the long summer break provides students with the exciting opportunities such as camps and family vacations. These are learning opportunities that take place outside of the classroom by teaching young children valuable life skills including patience, teamwork, and tolerance (ltisdschools.org ). Also, teenagers may

Year round education (YRE) is implemented in 436 U.S. school districts with very few complaints. In fact, school districts that have been participating in YRE and extended school days (ESD) are raving about the benefits in pupil's achievement level, their new found enthusiasm in learning, as well as the many programs that exist in the extended day promoting the decline in latch key children.

Year round schooling may sound scary but read this and I might change your mind. Year round school is pretty much what is sounds like, except it is the same amount of school days as a regular year, and it has more spread out breaks. Year round school would be beneficial because it consist of less review due to “summer slide”, more “family time”, and longer more spread out breaks.

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.

The topic of year around school has been brought up many times throughout my time in school. Though it has been brought up, it has not actually been considered by my fellow students and I. We have all taken surveys regarding it and most of the people I know have been against it. With our school being in a small town in Iowa I do not think having year round schooling would benefit us or the community.

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.

I strongly disagree with the Dickenson County School Board extending each school day by one and a half hours. I feel an extension will not benefit students and staff. The school days are long enough as it is. Students and staff may not have enough time to do other activities after school hours. Adding more and more hours to school will result in an abundance of stress on everyone involved. The school board needs to take into consideration all of the negative impact this extension will have on our schools.

One of the most documented reasons for switching to a year round school is what’s known as the “summer slide.” Students leave spring semester after taking their exams and don’t think about school for almost 12 weeks. These students then come back in the fall not only failing at subjects they knew three months prior, but in dire need of having the foundations re taught to them. This forces teachers to spend valuable class time re-teaching lessons, which dips into class time that should be used for grade appropriate lessons. In her article, O’Sulivan theorizes, “the less times students are away from school, the less time teachers will have to spend reviewing material from the previous year and acclimating students to classroom rules and procedures”.

There has been much debate about whether to continue with traditional school or having Year Round school. It does not matter which side you are on there are opponents to each side. I think school should be year round because if kids are going to school year it is more likely that they will remember the information they learned in school, instead of forgetting most of it over the summer. School should be year round so that students would not have to relearn information they already know, and what the expectations. I think it should be year round because I believe that it would make students smarter over the years, because they would have more time to acquire more information and students would not lose any information they learned during school year.

Altogether, year- round school is an idea of success and needs to become more known to keep the nation’s knowledge developing. The more academics a child learns, the more growing of academic maturation. Although year-round school seems time consuming, it is all but a new layout for schools to show off their intelligence. More jobs will become fulfilled with the new year-round impacting on a schedule known to follow along an entire year. Make more year-round schools; it sounds like an extravagant

After a long summer break full of vacations, pool days, endless sleepovers, and other crazy adventures, students return to school with rested minds and darker skin. During the previous school year, they were constantly worried about homework, projects, and tests. Their three month getaway has cleared their thoughts of school completely, which is precisely the problem. When teachers ask returning students what material they remember from last year, the answer is absolutely nothing.