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    effectively in year-round schools or traditional calendar schools? In the article she states that more schools turn to year-round schools for many reasons. Interest in implementing year-round schools can be attributed to three advantages of a year-round calendar: increased student achievement; greater satisfaction among parents, teachers, and students and cost savings (McMillian, 2001). Studies have shown that year-round schools pros and cons with the transition of traditional schools to year-round calendar

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    Year-round schools are becoming very popular in today’s society. Many schools have changed their school year to year-round and still have the same 180 days that the traditional schools have. The schools that changed from the traditional school year to the year-round school have found many positive things about this type of school year. The old way of schools being out in the summer is a thing of the past. The traditional way was originally set up many years ago so the kids could help out on the farm

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    Statistics show that there has been a 544 percent increase in year-round implementations from the year 1987 to 2014. That is a huge problem! Why? Doing away with the traditional school calender is causing distress in families and teachers lives. It is cutting into the students Summer extracurricular activities, destroying family plans, and affecting teachers badly. The year-round calender is a terrible idea. The idea for this new calender should go away. Extracurricular activities are a demention

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    As a student who use to attend a year-round school, all schools should become year-round. Year-round education will be an improvement for students who have never been in a year round school. There are roughly 3,000 schools enrolled to Year-Round Education and more than 2 millions students in those Year-Round schools in the United States. Year-Round schooling would help students cut down on the amount of stress they develop throughout the year. When having a long 3 month summer break you will forget

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    Well, if you do, how would you feel about year round school. Year round school has been a topic talked about throughout the whole world. There are many advantages and disadvantages for industries, schools, students, teachers, and even parents. Lots of conflicts occur when changing the school year to year round. It can be unhealthy for everybody including students, parents, and even certain businesses. Year round school can lead to poor things. Year round schoolers affects students greatly. One extreme

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    Many schools are considering changing to a year-round school schedule. The schedule would have students attend school year-round with several three-week breaks rather than the traditional school calendar, which begins in the fall and ends in the spring. There are many benefits in year-round schooling over the traditional school calendar, students don’t have the long 3 month summer break where they lose a lot of what they have learned, and it helps the troubled students with attending and excelling

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    I am in complete opposition to considering starting the year-round schooling, due to the many disadvantages that come along with it. There are many disadvantages that come along with year-round schools, such as not being able to have other learning opportunities outside of schools. There are many learning opportunities outside of school that you wouldn’t be able to have with year-round schooling because you wouldn’t have nearly as much time to go and travel or go to camps. You wouldn’t also be able

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    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

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    For many years, girls and boys would go to a year round school, and have breaks certain times of the year to help out at home or on the farm. Now days, only four percent of schools are year round. There are not many things that children have to go home for during the winter or summer anymore. Therefore, it is not a necessity to have summers off. However, having more year round schools, will create and easier life for students. First of all, going to a year round school will, improve the amount

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    Did you know that all year round schools are the same length as regular schools? As of now are school day length is roughly 180 days, the all year round schools are roughly 180 days long. The only reason why people think that you go to school longer in a year round school is because you only get a month off in the summer, the rest of the time is spread out between our Easter and Christmas holidays. Pros of year round schooling would include longer breaks on holidays, for example, instead of getting

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