Personal Note On Christmas Break

Imagine a school year that never ends. A year without summer, relaxation, and vacations with family. Summer is the time of year that every student cannot wait arrive. But what if the playful time filled with friends, smiles, and laughter did not exist? What if school remained in session year-round? This is happening in 3,181 schools across America and is gradually increasing (edweek.org). The government calls it: Year-Round School. There are both many pros and cons to this controversial issue in today’s education; however, Year-Round School is not a good decision because of the social outcomes, the financial costs, and the academic effects that Year-Round School burdens on the students.

The number of year-round schools in the United States, at the moment, is 3,181. Additionally, only a mere 10% of public school children are enrolled in year-round school. The idea of a year-round school is a really neglected one. Most schools have adopted the ‘Traditional’ idea of a school year that has a summer break. However, a year round school has periodic, shortened breaks, which helps the students, and the teachers alike. Having year-round school is a revolutionary idea, and it should be adopted into the Public School System, nationally.

Here in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, people know that throughout the year, there will be at least one school day canceled due to snow. Unfortunately, during the 2013-14 school year, there have been an unusual amount of snow days because of the harsh winter. The problem of making them up has been a huge controversy between the students, teachers and other staff, the Wentzville R-IV School District Calendar Committee, and parents throughout the district. Certain holidays have been threatened to be taken away to make up some of these snow days, including Spring Break. We are writing this to you to explain our opinion and to give suggestions on how to solve this problem. We appreciate your time and consideration.

The first reason why kids should go to a year round school so they will have shorter breaks so they won’t forget anything they have

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.

Spring break is supposed to be one of the happiest times of the year: families go on vacation, students and employees can finally relax after months of hard work, and the horrible cold months are finally turning into beautiful, lively new ones. This is how most people would describe spring break, but for me and my family in April of 2010, this was not the case.

Year-round schooling is characterized by its 45-90 day periods of instruction (varying with different multitrack systems) separated by 15-30 day breaks (varying with different multitrack systems) (California Department of Education). There is no current scientific evidence to show that year-round education lessens the amount of material forgotten during the summer (McMillen 68); in fact, this memory loss is maximized as it occurs more frequently as it accompanies the shorter, habitual breaks. Constant breaks can also multiply some of summer’s negative effects. One common issue associated with summer is students’ loss of focus as summer approaches and trouble becoming accustomed to the beginning of the following school year (Worsnop 439). This would be a, though minimized, a recurring difficulty with constant breaks. Furthermore, teachers

Year-round school is very disruptive. Children might get very involved in a lesson only to have a sudden break and lose that momentum. “It was really hard to get involved

Due to the three month break teens often spend much of their time taking a vacation or working. Many of the ‘’older students might suffer financially because during this time they would normally secure full-time summer employment during a traditional summer break.’’ (Pearson, p. 6) There also wouldn’t be as much quality family time spent that students can simply get from vacations. ‘’It would have been extremely difficult to have family time together.’’ (Wildavsky, p. 18) Which many won’t get after their high school lives considering how busy their college and work life can

It is October 15th. Normally, students would be at school, working for hours on end at math, communication arts, and science. But this year is different. This year your school has now entered into the year-round calendar system. At home, you can enjoy the season of fall with pumpkins, Halloween, and beautiful weather. The idea of year round school has most commonly been pushed aside because of the misconception that it is too much school, or an on-going cycle of learning. However, those who declare this, do not understand the year-round school concept. Year-round school provides the same number of days as the traditional calendar. The difference, which will change our society and the achievement rate of our students in the future, is that the days are reordered into intersessions. The mechanisms of year round school include students attending school for a nine week period, then following this is a three week break. This rotation occurs year-round with a slightly longer summer break. Consequently, Though many people agree with keeping tradition with the popular school calendar, new evidence and testimony proves that year-round school provides the better avenue because the world is evolving, it benefits low income students, and intersessions are more effective than summer break.

The average school period is one hundred and eighty days with small breaks in between and a three-month break during summer to ease students’ minds and let them relax. The Board of Education should make all schools in the United States year-round to increase educational time and decrease the loss of knowledge over the breaks. It gives students the same time to relax and plan family vacations periodically throughout the year, but never creates the stress of changing sleep schedules that summer break changes. Not only is it a good way to enhance education, but it also is better for planning family events, positive effects on budget, academic achievement, and could decrease the absence rate of students.

Curfew is a set time which teenagers will have to schedule their activities around. Generally, this curfew doesn’t change and helps your teen to understand boundaries. It is a wonderful idea for teens to have curfews because it teaches them to be responsible and also considerate of other people around them. As teenagers, it is natural for adolescents to feel like their freedoms are being taken away and that their parents don’t know what is best. However, curfew is put in place for the direct opposite, which is keeping teenagers out of trouble. Curfew teaches teenagers time management, it could lower the crime rate in local areas, and it could give teenagers an overall better relationship with their parents. Because of these reasons, I

Most adults and parents foresee curfew as a discipline to teenagers, but from an adolescent 's’ perspective, they take it as a threat to their social life. In Hawai’i, the law clearly states that children who are under the age of sixteen and have no adult supervision, shall not be out between the hours of ten p.m. and four a.m. In today’s society, there are a variety of activities and events that occur pass curfew for teens where friends can gallivant and socialize, watch midnight movies, eat at happy hour food places, and a game that is common to the generation now, Pokemon Go. Coming from a strict family who provoked curfew, I know how it feels to be restricted from doing something I want to do. Does it necessarily mean teens are doing rebellious things staying out after hours? Does a certain time of day stop adolescents from staying out of trouble? Why does curfew start at a specific time? Is anyone really safe at any time of the day?

The break calls for staying up late and waking up whenever you want to. Everyone works so hard during the school year, so they deserve that free time. Summer times are stress free, relaxing, and basically fun. You don’t have to worry about homework, projects, and studying for a test. One of my favorite summer pastimes is staying up late watching movies and eating junk food, and then waking up late and having brunch.

There have long been debates by parents and teenagers on whether or not there are benefits for establishing a curfew. A curfew is a designated hour that requires people to remain indoors. Curfews are typically set in place by parents for their teenagers to return home at a certain time at night. There are a numerous amount of compelling arguments that support each side of the idea about curfews. Although there are many arguments that can be made, there are a number of positive factors that lead to the belief that curfews should be implemented in a household atmosphere.