year round school has proven to be an effective means of educating children. do you agree/disagree? and why?

Question

year round school has proven to be an effective means of educating children. do you agree/disagree? and why?

Answer 1

I agree. School was only let out in summers so that kids could help families with the land. That is no longer a necessity. Because we let so many things slide, America is letting our children fall through the crack educationally. I have found a school to put my child in year round and I hope that many others do the same.

Answer 2

Mm, I wouldn't like having school all year around, but whenever summer comes I end up forgetting a lot of information and I become bored really quickly. Summer itself is a bit too long. I'd rather have year 'round school with a lot of little breaks in between.

Answer 3

Sure it's better for retaining knowledge, but there's a reason why the first two weeks are given REVIEW. As a student, I can honestly say that it's NOT better for our grades. Sure during the summer, we can get bored and wind up doing nothing and losing all that we learned. But get real, we'd die in school during the summer. It's just too hot, and we'd get bad grades because we're dying of heat and just don't have the attention span to listen.

Sure you might say "but there's air conditioning!" Most schools don't have air conditioning because it is an unnecessary luxury and is way too expensive for an entire school, it's only used for computer rooms to keep the computers from getting hot.

Many kids already die and slave away at school in the morning, but if it's hot, we'll be more concentrated on how muggy it is and how we're about to faint. Also, it's better to stay at home because there may be a high rate of students that will just faint from the pressure in the classroom, the pressure from the homework, the stress, the sleepiness, and the heat.

The heat will just give students more incentive to cut or miss out on class. Those whom already cut and seldom come will not come at all, and those whom pay full attention to class and come all the time, may cut every once in a while or just faint in class. I'm an attentive student, I go even when I'm sick, I care about school, but I (and a bunch of my friends) am very weak to the heat. During the summer I tend to stay indoors, if I go out, I'm only outside to either walk to the place or walk to the bus, I like things cool. If I were to go to school during the summer, I'd have bad grades because I KNOW I'll wind up fainting in class and it'll be mistaken for sleeping. Teachers CAN be unfair. Even teachers though want a long break. Three weeks of school, then one week for a break (a charter being planned by the NY Board of Ed.) will kill even TEACHERS themselves. Also, that'd be unfair for those taking AP exams (if it's high school) because country wide, they're the same day. They'd have to cram it all in a shorter amount of time.

Mothers and people think that'd be better, but in the honest truth, for a student AND a teacher's health (mental and physical well being), it will destroy a major amount of them. You're free to disagree on this, but seriously, think about your kids and think about friends of yours, yourself, or your husband, or anyone whom works long and hard. Sometimes don't you/they feel as if you/they're about to break? Do you want that to happen to a child so early in his/her life? It may seem okay for children in elementary and junior high, but high school is a whole lot more stressful on kids. There are college kids that even take classes in the summer, and look at how burnt they are. I think it's bad for our health so early in our lives. Just to let you know, school and teaching isn't how it was back then when you were a kid (assuming you're not 18 or 25 anymore).

Answer 4

Disagree. I think that kids should...need to have a break or they'll get burned out just like adults. I wish I had a 3 month summer break! I actually think that everyone should get the summer off. That's my vote!

Answer 5

Education is not just the retention of facts, people need relaxation in their lives in order to learn some of the quieter lessons. Especially children! They never stop learning, whether they're in school or not.

Answer 6

My opinion is they(students) retain it better. I think year round school would be better with mini breaks through out the year. some places in Europe do it and have better results than we do.

Answer 7

I like the way it is, with a long summer break.

Answer 8

agree..the kids forget all they learned with the long summer break