Freedom Summer

Imagine it is the very end of the school year. The sun is shining brightly and heat courses down on the heads of eager students of Forest Park. Summer vacation is here! Right? A break from the tests, homework, and hard work is finally deserved, right? Maybe not. The subject of year round school at Forest Park has been talked about for quite some time now. There are those who are opposed to the idea and some in favor. Staff has concerned themselves with throwing their opinions into the mix, but has

the breaks that it holds while elementary to high school students are begging for another month of summer for going to the beach and vacations. Although they are complaining now, when the days start to cool down and the workload lightens they will be out having a blast with friends once again. The days are still long and hot and all the youngsters have just gone back to school. The lighthearted summer nights with friends have ended and the workload just piles up on the desk. Papers and bills are

Many students love to go away for summer vacations and restart a whole new school year worth of fun learning and new ideas, but what if all of this changes, just because of having school all year long? I for one, do not support this idea about having school all year, the reason I don’t, is because you have to give a student some free time and a stress free month. However, in the website debate.org, it states that “if you take away a student’s ability to have a vacation, it can increase the risk of

Do you remember how excited you used to get for summer break? Now imagine not having a break at all, having to continuously learn new subjects all year-long. Exhausting isn’t it? There are some schools where there would be a 3-4 week break in the summer, but the winter break is longer than ours. Personally, I believe that we should keep our summer break the way it is because: both students and teachers deserve a break from school, constantly having new information drilled into your head all year-long

to a summers day” he uses metaphors and imagery to compare his lovers beauty and nature. He points outs a few imperfections about love, and line by line leaves you in suspense as to, what was he was really talking about? Shakespeare starts the first line in his Sonnet with a metaphor “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (1.). It seems obvious that he was talking to, and about an actual person, he uses the word “thee” in modern translation it means

Summer is a time in which children are able to forget the demands of school and do as they please. Students do a variety of things over the summer, whether they spend it at the pool, get a summer job, or simply enjoy time at home. I plan to do none of those things, though. When was little I dreamed of attending the Joffrey Ballet School in New York to study dance. In January, I auditioned for the program and was accepted. So, though I am from Georgia, I will be spending the summer in New York City

Growing up in Northern Michigan and having family members from all over the state meant that my family traveled around quite a bit to see all of the natural wonders that Michigan has to offer.  From the time I was born until now I have lived in the same neighborhood (Lake Arrowhead). When I was in fifth grade my parents divorced but because both of them loved the neighborhood so much my mom kept our house and my dad built a new home about three miles away but still in the same neighborhood. I use

A 3 month summer vacation may sound great, but in reality it doesn’t live up to the hype. Ironically, students are given this large vacation time, but it forces working parents to take time off when they have no other available supervision resources. Often times, they even have to come out of pocket every month, or commonly even every week, just to put their children in safe programs, camps, and clubs. Although when thinking of summer break, you generally foresee younger kids who cannot watch themselves

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. Firstly, year

Things about my Life (so far), by Ann M. Martin, is about a fifth grade girl who has a report she has to write about her summer. Pearl Littlefield is a young girl who just entered the fifth grade and on the very first day she is having trouble with an assignment. Pearl flashes back to the end of fourth grade recalling how she would have a wonderful summer. Yet, Pearl’s summer is not all peachy as she thought. Pearl encounters a few difficulties to get through and realizes that whenever one door