In the recent decades, the number of schools who use a year-round schedule rather than a 9 months on and 3 months off schedule has been increasing. This alternative to the school year schedule with a summer break was first established in the 1960s. As of 2015, more than 3,500 K-12 schools in the United States have opted for year-round schooling rather than the traditional schedule. These changes have predominantly taken place in school districts located in the south and west of the United States. These schedule changes have been met with backlash and concern from parents, staff, and students.
Although “year-round” is used to describe the different schedule, the school year would still include just the normal 180 days of students being in the classroom and the same number of vacation days. Majority of districts who have made the switch split up the 180 days with longer periods of vacation days throughout the entire year. Some of the most popular schedules are four 45-day periods followed by 15-days off, three 60-day periods with 20 days of break, and two 90-day periods in the classroom followed by two 30-day vacation periods.
Advocates for year-round schooling argue that the pros outweigh the cons so much that it is worth making this big change to the school year schedule. Benefits of year-round schooling include a reduction of learning loss over the summer, nearly year-round childcare for parents of younger students, and longer breaks throughout the year which may eliminate the need for students to miss school for a vacation. Cons of implementing a year-round schooling schedule include, teenagers would not be able to have summer jobs, summer camps would not be able to exist or would have to be shorter, and the change would be costly for school districts.
In my opinion, I would definitely prefer the traditional school schedule with a 3 month summer break over year-round schooling. I feel I would perform better academically with a longer break between school years rather than only a few weeks with the year-round schooling schedule. I don’t think it would be very beneficial to many people as it would be a very big change.
Would you prefer year-round schooling over the traditional schedule? Why or why not?
What do you think the biggest problem with year-round schooling would be?
What do you think the biggest benefit of year-round schooling would be?
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/year-round-schooling-explained/2015/12
https://www.verywellfamily.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-year-round-school-621001
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I agree, if school was year-round a lot of people might miss more school, especially in the summer.
I think that It would not be terrible to make schools year-round. As long as we would get breaks. I feel that right now we jam-pack our school year with so many days and then all of us are exhausted and overworked and having a year around the school would be great you would be wise and stay smart the excellent thing about this would be that everyone would have a good sleep schedule
I do not want school year round becuase, I do not like school. Although, I would maybe consider it, only because that gets school done and overwith, knowing I only have 2 years left. I think that if we went year round that would drive kids and parents also teachers crazy.
No, I would not want to go to school all year round because the teachers and the students would get crabby because they don't get a summer off. I think the biggest problem of school year-round would be the kids wanting to go outside in the nice summer heat and they would not want to do school work.
I don't think schools should be year around because the students won't be able to have fun and hang out with their friends without school and won't be able to spend outside in the warm weather. I think that if they do I would want to go to a different school that doesn't have year-round school because I would love to have my summers hanging out and going outside instead of learning and staying inside for 7 hours.
I agree, if school was year-round there would be less time to be in decently nice weather.
I think that if school was year-round people would be super tired. I like how we get breaks from school. When there is a break like summer break students don't have to worry about turning in assignments or writing a paper, etc. It's refreshing not going to school every single day.
I agree, it's nice to not have to worry about turning in an assignement for a few months in the summer.
I feel It would not be terrible to make schools year-round. As long as we would get breaks. I feel that right now we jam-pack our school year with so many days and then all of us are exhausted and overworked. Then summer comes and its awesome but we forget everything we learned. I end up missing school a tad in the summer so I think it would be ok to have school year-round but give us a week break once every couple of months or something.
I would prefer year-round school because when its summer we should get a break from school and not worry about going to school. I also think that when it is summer we would have more time hanging out with friends and you don't have to worry about getting home at a decent time for school.
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