Year-Round Schooling Benefits

.Do you like year round school? Year round schools start in August . They go nine weeks, and then have a two week break. Does it sound like something you would like to do?

Mrs.Misslehorn Christian Duecker 7th hour Language arts 3/29/2017 Year round schools are not good for kids and it is very expensive. The first reason kids should have summer break because it can be enriching. According to Amelia Joselow, kids need to be active during the summer.

Should Schools Keep Summer Break? I believe that schools should keep summer break for their kids. There are many ways, having a summer break contributes to schools and the community. It is an American tradition to get out of school for the hot summer months.

Year-Round Schooling in America What do you think about having multiple and longer vacations a year? How would you like not relearning the lessons you have already learned? With year-round schooling you can accomplish this. Year-round schooling offers more opportunities for the parents and students.

Traditional school versus Year round school The idea of year round school is starting to be more the topic of discussion. Many people are for the idea of year round education and many are against it. “If our country began on a year around schedule, it would have seemed bizarre to propose the summer- off schedule as a superior way to educate students” says Principle Hazel Colebank. Although some may feel year round school is great for bettering education, changing what’s considered normal could cause more harm than good.

Ethan Marshall Year round schools Mr.Reynolds 4/1/16 Can you imagine after a couple of weeks of school having a 2-4 week break? Wouldn 't that be awesome? You could go to Disney or Kalahari without a lot of people being there. That 's the case in year round schools. I am for year round schools because they have a lot of breaks and they have extra opportunities.

Did you know that China has one of the best education programs in the world? Why are China’s students so successful? They go to school year round. In fact, the number of year round schools increased 26% in 2007. Traditional schools started 100 years ago.

P-12 schools should be year-round In 1553 John Adams coined the phrase, “Practice makes perfect.” This most commonly refers to the use of repetition in order to keep things fresh in our minds. The term for how well one remembers things, after being taught them, is retention. The better one’s retention is, the faster they will be able to recall information.

"Year-round education is a change in the school year calendar so the long summer vacation of the traditional school year is reduced to some degree," explains Charles Ballinger, executive director of the National Association for Year-Round Education (NAYRE). Among 34 nations around the globe, the United States has one of the most limited school years. As the customary school year in America is 180 days. South Korean youngsters burn through 220 days complete in the classroom while Finland has a 190 day school year. Both instructive frameworks rank higher than the United States in math and sciences.

Many schools throughout the United States take summer vacations to give students a break from school. Other schools make their students attend school year-round and they get shorter breaks. For the school I attend, W.J. Christian K-8 Alternative Program, it would be best to have one long summer break. We get more work than average students our age, so we are more tired throughout the school year. More is expected of us than other students so we are more stressed as well.

After reading, ¨Say No To Year-Round Schooling¨ by Nick Castillino. I was convinced th having a summer break would be better for the kids. Amy said, kids who are struggling in school wouldn't have to go to summer schools anymore, it would be hard for kids to have such a long attention span, and it would cost too much for the school districts. In Amy MacDonald's article she said,¨Children who are struggling in school would no longer have to go to summer school.¨ But I think that if kids have to go to summer school during their breaks, It is a good lesson for the kids to do well in school so they do not have to go to summer school.