Should Schools Have Year-Round School?

The idea of having school go year-round is definitely an interesting one. There a clearly many benefits in getting rid of summer vacation, one of them being that students lose information over the summer. According to Harris Cooper from “The Ten-Month School Year: Are We Ignoring Educational Research in Order to Preserve Summer Vacation? Finding a Compromise Between Educational Advancement and Over-Schooling.” By Mary Therese O’Sullivan, he says that “"[t]ests given to kids in the spring and fall show [that] children generally slide in math and reading during the traditional summer break

Year-round schooling could make those vacations more difficult. Even though there is a shorter summer break using year-round schooling, there is still enough time for families to go on a long summer vacation. In fact, because of the way a balanced calendar is set up, there are different opportunities for vacations. In year-round schooling there are multiple breaks after each quarter. These can allow families to go on vacation on seasons other than summer, and have more frequent, smaller breaks during the year (Year-round). The cost for plane tickets and some other expenses of a vacation could be reduced. This could occur because if going on vacation during an offseason, plane tickets are generally less expensive (Year-round). With standard schooling there are times when families want to go on vacation. The problem is that there either is not a break that the family could go during, or the break is not long enough for the vacation the family wants (Flanagan). This causes the student to miss school, and with that tests, lessons, and homework. It can be hard for students to get caught up and fully understand the information that they missed during their time off of school (Flanagan). The frequent break would help with this and make planning vacations more easy. Summer vacationing seems difficult with year-round schooling, but there are actually many

Under a year-round schedule, the students benefit by having smaller breaks, meaning they can quickly snap back to previously learned information. When information is stored, but not used for an extended period of time, anyone can lose that information. Due to the shorter breaks, students may find it difficult to find a summer job, or a job at all, but there are jobs that work with students or maybe just limit their time at the workplace.

Why is a year-round school a bad idea? Having a summer vacation gives students motivation throughout the school year. It is a bad idea to make our winter break longer than summer break because some students work over the summer, students are not getting the best education they could, and they will not have much time to spend with their family.

According to the National Association for Year-Round Education, students will be able to advance more rapidly if they did year-round schooling. A by-product of summer break is the dividing of classes based on age. If schooling was year-round, there would be less distinction between one year and the next. This only teaches us to work with people from our generation. If we had year-round schooling we could advance quicker and work with people from different generations, just like how it would be in the future with jobs. Also, the constant learning environment takes away the emphasis of when the student started school and instead emphasizes skill

Do students get bored towards the end of summer? Do students forget what they learned from the school year before? Sarah attends a high school in Indiana, while Hannah goes to a high school in Illinois. Due to the year round schooling (YRS) in Indiana, Sarah has a shortened summer. Sarah receives two-three weeks off of school for winter break, fall break, and spring break. Once Sarah gets back from her breaks, her teacher has one day of review and moves on. Hannah does not have to go to school during the summer but only receives a week or two off here and there. When Hannah returns to start school after summer ends, her teacher takes two weeks to review what they learned the year before. The breaks for Sarah last a lot longer than they do for Hannah. The extensive summer break disconnected Hannah from school and she forgot everything. Year round schooling would benefit students because it would reduce negativity toward school and stress.

Schools around the U.S. are switching to a calendar called year-round school. Kids in year-round schools go to school from six to nine weeks without breaks and a two-to-four week break. There has been a debate on whether Florida should go to year-round or not. Florida should go to year-round school because there is less teacher and student burnout, and teachers would have to spend less time reviewing material that would be lost over summer break. Regular schools give teachers an advantage because it allows teachers more time to prepare for the next school year and finalize grades, but Florida should go to year-round school because the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

What do you do during summer break? Do you go on a long family trip, or do you have to get a job? Now imagine if those plans were ruined by year round schooling. Year round schooling is not beneficial for students and teachers because it can cause more stress, students get summer jobs, and people go on family trips and spend time with family and friends during summer break.

There are many reasons why there should and shouldn’t be year round schooling. Like the benefits for elementary students. Also about the minority students and ESL. And middle and high school students need time to just be kids.

To start with, students don't have to relearn everything they learned before the summer break. According to Year Round School, “Also, students won't have to relearn what they forgot over the summer since they would only be out of school for three weeks at a time.” To clarify, students are out for less time, thus they will remember more of what they learned.

Students should attend school year round because, it increases the amount of material they learn, provides more vacations in between the year, and helps them retain knowledge they learned instead of forgetting it over a two month period. Students go to school for ten months, and get a two month vacation. This two month vacation may feel nice while you are in it, but many students think there are not enough breaks during the school year. Some schools only celebrate three holidays, which are Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Holidays such as Labor Day and President’s Day are claimed by schoolboards to be “an unimportant holiday”.

With a year round curriculum, many high school students will not be able to keep jobs with the sporadic breaks that a year round schedule offers. Many high school students also need jobs to pay for college tuition. With a shorter break, many students won’t be able to afford college. “Some students work over the summer to save up money for college, so with school being year-round, they wouldn't get that opportunity.” (Pantagraph.com)

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.

some parents say do year-round schools with short little breaks because that is s good benefit and it is parents can catch up on sleep and get lots of things done

1. The students don't get a good break like in regular schools. Also if your mom is like mine they will still be doing school work to prepare for the next year. I know that is good but still because of the shorter break you really aren't going to forget anything. I mean like it's just a month seriously. Why even have a break at all.