The Overall Affect Of School Cancellations On The Class Syllabus

A large portion of the knowledge gained during the last school year is lost over the long idle months and must be retaught for weeks, which wastes a lot of time that could be spent learning new material. This puts students behind in that year’s curriculum, and over many summers, can add up to students being months or years behind where they would be if no learning was lost. There is a solution to this

In 2007, the school had a change in leadership and had students attend 2 periods per day, mourning class and afternoon class. They would complete a semester's worth of work in 21 days, then focus on 2 additional classes for another 21 days. So that at semester, students would have completed 6 classes like the rest of the building. The only hiccup with this is attendance was so bad, if students missed more than 2 days it was equivalent to missing 3 weeks of school at the comprehensive setting. Students had to have homework logs documenting how many hours of homework they had completed.

A teacher who was part of a year round system recounts, “I found myself going through 3 school years without that opportunity for self-assessment and planning for the future of the educational program.” (“The Effect of Year Round Schools” 1999/22 February 2005). With a much shorter summer break, teachers will not have enough time to increase their education, which can benefit the learning of their students. For these reasons, year round schools are not as beneficial as the traditional school year.

Have you ever wondered why teachers take a whole month to review everything from the previous year or why students tend to forget everything? Every year, students are keeping their calendars at hand and counting down the days until summer vacation. It’s the last day of school and when the final bell rings, kids are ready to do nothing for three months. However, is this really a good thing? The possibility of having year-round schools is at hot debate topic right now and it is time for change from traditional calendar schools. Schools should incorporate a system where schooling is year-round instead of having a long summer break because this allows for more learning and would prevent the problem of students forgetting everything they’ve

The NSLA took a survey of educators and it confirmed that teachers who work in a school that follows the traditional schedule spend between three to six weeks re-teaching material from the previous school year (Source C). Along with this survey it is believed by most of districts who have implemented year-round school that it is academically necessary because it helps students with retention rates, if students are never out on break for months at a time they will be less likely to forgot the information leaving teachers with more time to teach new information without fearing the old information has gone away. While some teachers dislike the new schedule because it leaves them little time to prepare from the end of one school year to the beginning of the next, the educational time it saves in the long run outweighs the loss of planning time consequently making year-round school an essential change to the educational system in America (Source

In “Year-Round Schooling Explained” by Jaclyn Zubrzycki, I support year-round school versus standard school because of the benefits of impacts from the new school timeline. It impresses me that such a drastic change of school arrangement can “stem summer learning loss,

As a way to minimize summer learning loss, the reorganization of the traditional school calendar in the year-round education system replaces long summer vacations with several smaller breaks throughout the year (Raisch, 2008). In year-round education policies, the schools are set on a school plan and track system. This maximizes the use of school facilities by dividing the school attendance days into rotating instruction and vacation segments. According to Chittom and Klassen (2014), “The plan determines the number of consecutive days students attend school and also dictates the break schedule.” In the year-round school calendar, the 45-15 plan, the 60-20 plan, and the 90-30 plan are the most common. For example, students on a 45-15 plan would

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.

Summer learning loss is only one major problem of the famous three month long vacation from school (Ballinger and Kneese 2). The traditional school calendar was created during a time when children needed to help work at the farm, and we are far past being a primarily

At the site base meeting it was noted that students are required to attend tutorials with Mr. Qualls after they have failed two consecutive six weeks. The teachers in attendance made various suggestions on how to be proactive to reach the students earlier in the semester to enable students to be successful the following six week. One common thread in the suggestions was to use 5th period as a pull-out program so teachers could work one on one with their student’s that need additional learning time in a particular subject that the student had failed the previous six weeks. Since students are currently assigned to a teacher’s attendance roster, an idea that was discussed by Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Hendrix, was to have teachers communicate with

Given the cumulative negative effects of summer learning loss, what can educators, administrators, and parents

Have you ever thought about what school would be like without the long awaited summer break that comes with the end of each school year? If so, you might be thinking, what would I do with the extra time? Or how would we ever get a chance for a vacation? Is it going to be too overwhelming for my child? But the biggest factor of all, how would the children take this news? It is a great debate amongst many parents and school districts right now. Should we keep the traditional education methods? Or should society as a whole put this to the past and try a new approach to the way we educate our children: Year-round schooling.

The traditional ten-month school program that the local school board currently implements should be reconsidered. If the concern of student's performance on standardized testing is important to the school, implementing a year-round school program instead could be beneficial to student's capabilities of doing well with standardized testing. A year-round school calendar has just as many days as the traditional school calendar, but is spread throughout the year. A year-round school program should be implemented for many different reasons, students tend to forget a lot of what they learned over summer break, so shorter breaks would prevent a greater loss of intelligence, and more time would be available to teach students new skills, students would also be

Have you ever wanted more time? Have you ever wanted to go to your lockers after every class? Have you ever forgotten anything because you don't have enough time in class? THen you agree with us to change th 8th grade schedule to match it with the rest of FCHS. Think about all the things that would be better, there will be no more sore ankles, more time in class to learn, best of all lockers after every class. The 8th grade schedule will not prepare us for the later years in high school, because we can't go to lockers after every other class. We don't have a lot of time between classes and walking a lot. Finally we don't have enough time in class.

As I remember myself as a school student, I did not like doing homework as well, and l also wanted to avoid this part. Students struggle with doing different tasks and assignments which they do not like and do not have desire to do. They often do not understand why doing homework is so important part of their educational process. The students express their complaint about the homework or by not doing it at all, or by protesting against it. Of course it would be easy to cancel the homework part and make the student’s life much comfortable and free from unwanted weight, but I totally disagree with canceling homework from educational process for three main