year round schooling is a bad idea?

Answer 1

well thats your opinion

Answer 2

The one positive to year round schooling is that you go 6 weeks and then get 2 weeks off. This continues throughout the year until summer. In summer you get 3-4 weeks off. You are continuously getting breaks which actually helps build the teacher and student achievement. Everyone comes back and is ready to start fresh.

Answer 3

I dislike it because our economy is built around the public school schedule. There are a lot of people who make their living on services to people under 18. If the entire country had the same schedule, that would be one thing, but to have some schools try all-year and others not, it would kill our camping industry, our amusement part industry, and many other unknown things. It shouldn't just be a question about whether kids require a refresher or not, it's a bigger issue.

Answer 4

Students would be better served by year round schooling through continuous learning, better achievement scores and cost efficiency. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Every year students in America start back to school in late August or early September after their summer break. Many students go on vacation, camps, fairs and other summer activities. After students return from summer break they have to review what they have most likely already forgotten as a result of being out of school for so long. If school districts attempted to change the traditional schedule instead of attending nine months and having three months off, schools would be in session for nine weeks with three week breaks and five weeks off in the summer. If students stay in school for longer periods of time with shorter breaks they would be able to better retain information that they have been taught. It is a proven fact that regular schools without a year round program have lower test results than the schools that are in session year round and also have better grades. By continuing the learning processes throughout the year students would be able to retain information better. Attending school year round would reduce a teacher’s burnout, Student stress, dropout rates, and disciplinary problems. It would also decrease school vandalism and burglary. With school being in session year round, school districts save money by using a multitract schedules which means that different students would be on vacation at different times and all the students would not be there simultaneously, this in turn would save space and money because the school districts would not have to build new schools to house all students. Non-traditional schooling would save money, improve scholastic achievement, intellectual and retaining information. Both schools would be in attendance for 180 days, the only difference being scheduling. Which would you rather have: Students who attend school for nine months with three months off who barely know anything or students who have went to school year round who remember all the material they have been taught. The next time you are given the opportunity to decide about year round schooling it would be beneficial to look at the advantages it would have on individuals and on the community.

Answer 5

It's been quite successful in lots of different places. Retention of information is a lot easier when there's less time for students to lose it. A 6 weeks on, 2 weeks off system works in countries other than the US. Try RESEARCHING it to see what you come up with.

Answer 6

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." (John Lubbock)

Answer 7

Yah, your mind needs a break and so does the rest of your body. To much stress is not good.

Answer 8

If I were a student, I'd hate it. I needed my summers OFF!!!!!