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    out of school, you can. Year-round school can be confusing for families that travel a lot. Instead of  having about eleven weeks off, you get three seperate periods off of school. From personal experience, I did better when I got a little time off from school. When kids have more time off from school, they can talk to their friends out of school, instead of in class. The new schedule will make it easier for parent to plan vacations for the family.This is why I think schools should be year round with

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    a break during the hotter months of the year in order to combat things like heat exhaustion. However, almost every school now has central cooling, so why haven’t more schools adopted a year-round schedule? Just begging the question will produce a rather negative reaction from your typical student, which is completely reasonable. This is because they hear this as, no summer break, when in reality it would mean, more breaks spread out across the entire year. When you explain to students that they

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    Year Round School Year-round schooling, also known as YRS, is a new idea that schools are trying to implement across the United States and worldwide. “As of June 2006, and estimated 2.3 million students in over 3,100 schools across the United States attended classes on a year-round school schedule.” (Chittom and Klassen). Schools that aren’t on a year-round schedule are based off of a 180- day calendar that includes a summer and fall break. With the YRS schedule the classes would run for 3 weeks

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    have to go to year round school. But really they should be thanking you. Some people think that there should be year round school, but others don’t think that there should be year round school. Schools should have year round school. For example most schools switch to year round school, in the article nea Today Tower say “This year, multiple schools adopted year-round schedules to help them improve academically” (Tower). Having year round school helps a lot in many different ways. Schools should have

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    time off from school, but others are taking tests and doing homework, and not because they are in summer school. Those kids are in a year round schooling system. This means they have 45 days of school and then 15 off, this school year lasts the whole year, even during summer break! Although some think differently, year round schooling would be detrimental if put into effect at Shattuck Middle School, because year round schools have little to no academic benefit versus traditional schools. Also, having

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    people think of year round schools they think of the boring 365 day school, but it is actually just 180 days spread out throughout the year. There has been lots of debate on year round schooling. Some people think,that year round school is money absorbent, a waste of time, and an unuseful program. Others think, it improves education, makes money, and can accommodate more students. I think that year round school is an advantage to the student's,the school, and the economy. Year round education improves

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    Year-Round School Year-round school is having school all year round instead of having a summer break. If we had year-round school, people wouldn’t lose what they learned over summer break. The teachers wouldn’t have to re-teach the things they did before. Then the students could graduate faster if we didn’t have summer vacation (Morin). Some bad parts about year-round school is some parents are not going to leave their child home alone if they go on vacation during the summer, so the child could

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    “In many ways, year-round schools fit better with American lifestyles." From the school year 1987-1988 to the school year 2002-2003, there was a 544 percent expansion in the usage of year-round school implementations among the public schools of the United States. Fortunately, the number is still growing. The United States’ students are falling behind students in other countries with our current style of schooling. Year-round school is a solution to that problem. Most year-round schools have the same

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    Year-round Schools      The possibility of year round schools has been a hot debate topic for quite some time. The question is, is the idea of year round schools acceptable considering all the potential drawbacks? Year round schooling can be disruptive to both the family of the students and the teachers themselves, it can be too costly for a large group of people, and year round schools do not provide the same opportunity for learning as the traditional school year does

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    several factors. Year-Round school is one such factor that could be contributing to higher academic achievement globally. Nationally, there seems to be a measurable increase of year-round schooling vs. traditional schooling. The growing popularity of year-round schooling is attributed to higher student achievement, higher wage earnings for teachers, and increased affordability for low-income families. For higher student achievement there was a study done at two year-round schools versus two traditional

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