Year round schooling?

Question

What is year round schooling to you??? And do you think we should switch, why??

You go to school for 45 days, you get 15 off (spring break), you go to school for 45 days, you get 30 off (summer break), you go to school for 45 days, you get 15 off (fall break), you go to school for 30 days, you get 3 days off (thanks giving), you go to school for 15days, you get 15 days off (winter break), Then you start over again...

To me, this doesnt show any room for students to get burnt out, they get more breaks and they are longer then the normal. (2weeks). More family trips. . .

Please list your age.

Answer 1

I am 33, and have taught fifth grade at a year round school for 5 years. I LOVE IT! Just when the kids are starting to get burned out, well, me included, we get our break. Months off in the summer is too much time for kids. Many get bored and in trouble. When they come back they are so much more refreshed and ready to come back to school. I could never teach at a traditional school again.
Vacation times are good also, because you have many options on when you can go on vacation, and usually get much better rates than if you go in the summer. Popular spots are less crowded as well.
It is hot in the summers, but so worth it. Give it a try. I was a skeptic at first, but now I am so glad I did it.

Answer 2

We study with the aid of the three hundred and sixty 5 days, and take day without work whilst it extremely is mandatory, or the kinfolk comes to a decision that we are going to devise a holiday. it extremely is optimal for infants/youthful adults to examine from the beginning up that the real international maintains to function all 3 hundred and sixty 5 days long, and does not enable us to take 3 months off for the period of the summer season time, except you're independently wealthy, or take unpaid go away. the US is the only united states of america I quite have ever lived in that has this sort of school 3 hundred and sixty 5 days set up, and it extremely is a few distance old to assert the least. Having a fall, Christmas, spring, and short summer season harm of approximately 5 to six weeks, is extra suitable than sufficient, and much extra effectual for the scholars besides.

Answer 3

year round schooling is AWESOME!!! Switching from traditional to year round is a bit hard (i've never done it but if i were to do it the other way around it would pretty tough).

we all have different tracks with their own individual calendar. there is track one, track two, track three, and track four. (I'm on track four!) you go to school for four quarters. one quarter is nine weeks. then you get two weeks for track out, but depending on what time of the year it is (like winter break is about three weeks so i get out for about FIVE WEEKS because i track out right after it ends! WOO!)

Not all tracks are all in at the same time. at the moment, track 1 is tracked out. Having a year round school is useful because you can have a larger student capacity. also, this prevents major reviewing in the fall for the traditional students coming back from summer vacation.

i am 10 turning 11 and in a year round school...(haha you probably wont believe it but oh well)

Answer 4

I am a teacher in an "extended-year" program... I absolutely love it! I know if I'm getting burnt out by the end of the quarter, my students are too! Generally, by the end of the second week of break, I'm ready to go back and many of my kids are too... "Man, I was bored at home!!"
Plus, it's not too long of a break that we have to re-teach anything.

BTW, I'm middle-age'ish...

Hope this helps,
Mon :-)

Answer 5

My friend teaches year round and sees great benefits for herself and her students. I would love to give it try!

teacher age 54

Answer 6

I am 31 years old.. This type of year round setup sounds like a great idea..