Year-Round Schools . Think About What It Is Like To Not

Jaclyn Zubrzycki explains how year-round schooling is simply breaking up the academic year with several two-to-three-week vacations. The length of breaks and schedules are different for each school. For some, the students have 45-day academic sessions followed by 15-day breaks, for others it’s 60-day sessions then 20-day breaks, and for many it’s 90-days of classes followed by 30-days of break. In the 2011-12 school year, 4% of schools were on a year-round schedule. That’s 3,700 schools, and 400 of those were charters. The number of year-round schools increased by 26% from 2006-07 to 2011-12. According to the Congressional Research Service, the average year-round school is open 189 days a year, which is 9 more days than a traditional school

Surprisingly, money plays a big role in year-round schooling. The article “Year-Round School Pros and Cons” states, “For schools with facility shortages, a multi-track year-round calendar increases school capacity.” This means that to maximize facility usage the school assigns different students different breaks at different times. Therefore, at all times there is always at least one group of students and teachers on break. This allows for the school to run on the same budget that traditional schools

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.

In the article,” The Pros and Cons of Year-Round School” it states that by taking summer away that this could help the students have more time to understand the material. In addition, they say that by taking summer away it helps students not to forget anything that they learn the year prior. This shows that students could excel more in school if summer breaks were gone. Also in the article, “The Pros and Cons of Year-Round School” states that the summer break given to the students is too long. The students have almost nothing to do. Some do go on vacations, but not a lot do. This shows that this would be the prime opportunity to get rid of summer, and do a year round school. Sure people believe that this should happen, but is that really the right way to go

Hillary Scott 1/19/16 3rd hour Year Round School Did you know that 3,000 schools in the United States have year round schools? Year round schools in the United States enroll more than 2 million students each year. Year round school is a school that has no summer break, therefore students attend school for a complete year with breaks in between. More school districts should switch to a year round school calendar because of the great benefits it provides such as, keeping children engaged, less time spent reteaching, and it saves money. Year round school helps school districts save money by a multi track calendar, occupying schools, and more space for students.

According to the National Education Association, “Most parents want their children to participate in summer activities and camps during the summer”. Summer gives students an opportunity to do and experience things that schools can’t teach. These things can include getting a summer job, summer camps, and traveling. According to National Education Association, “If an entire district does not adopt a year-round calendar, parents could have students at different schools at different schedules”. This quote is relevant because parents and students schedules would be more complex and stressful.

Have you ever wondered what the difference between traditional schooling and year-round education is? Maybe you didn’t know that there are more than one type of year-round education. A year-round school schedule can benefit educators, students, and even families. Year-round schooling is where the breaks in school are on a balanced schedule. Instead of having a three month summer break, there would be 60 days off and then the students would be back to school. If on a multi track schedule, teachers could use their off time to substitute at their school on a different track or at another school to get paid more. For students, the shorter breaks away from school increase retention rates, therefore reducing the amount of review necessary at

”http://neatoday.org/2014/09/04/districts-weigh-pros-and-cons-of-year-round-schools-2/ The article explains that in a year-round set up, extra-curricular activities may be harder for kids to participate in unless all of the schools that they compete with have the same schedule. Vacations are also harder to plan. Lastly, there is no complete and significant proof that students improve their learning. The last reason why people are against implementing year round

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 opposers of year round schooling have little argument to work with, but stress it strongly. The summer is a prime time for high school students to pick up short-term jobs to help pay for looming college fees, jobs like being a lifeguard at the pool is not available all year round throughout the United States. College students also have the opportunity to enroll in summer classes in order to meet pre-requisites for other classes. Summer classes could be a deciding factor on how early a student graduates. Also, a three-month summer break creates an easier, less stressful timeframe to plan a vacation. Instead of working a vacation into the shorter, known breaks of year round schooling, parents have three months to figure their week long vacation into. The most powerful argument is the effect on extracurricular activities. The frequent, short breaks in year round schooling would have an effect on extracurriculars like band because it would be required that they take the vacation off and could miss potential time to prepare before a performance. The traditional schooling system is still the majority in the United States even with very few benefits and no advantage over year round

Year- round school is growing in popularity around the United States. School years that are considered Year-round do not take the traditional three-month summer break, but instead take multiple breaks throughout the year that vary in length. Year-round school is necessary to today’s education system because it helps prevent summer learning loss for students, teachers do not have to waste time re-teaching old material and lower income families benefit greatly from the adjusted schedule.

In fact, a source claims that "Year Round Schooling effects stress on kids so much that even court has been involved in some cases”( "Stress from Year round schools?." WikiAnswers). Given these points, Year Round Schooling should not be enforced because it does not benefit the students in any way.

During summer, many students forget what they learned the year before, and teachers must review material done last year. People in year-round schools believe that because of the shorter breaks, teachers have to spend less time reviewing material, and can move forward in their teaching. According to the National Education Association, “one of the main reasons for switching to year-round schools is to improve with student academics.” Although there is no proof, many schools believe a year-round schedule helps improve students academic skills.

The third reason why we shouldn’t have all year round –schools is because, its tradition to have 180 day’s strait with 3 months of breaks and it gives us more important things to do in the summer. According to Julia Sines, to have a 3-month summer and do more fun activities to do all summer is better than going to school year round. Kids want to go on vacations with their parents. Some athletic kids won’t be able to play travel sports. Scientist say that year round school kids drop out by their senior year (Sines). Most juniors and seniors work in the summer for money for colleges and to save up, but they won’t be able to get money. It’s more American to have 180 straight days with 3-month break. Billee Bussard stated, “It is an idea that has been tried and failed for more than 100 years,” (Sines). So talking to that quote, why would we start now. Kids love going outside and swimming and playing games and making money, but because the kids go to year round schools they only have 3 weeks to do these fun