Schools becoming year-round is something many schools consider. Many year-round schools are helping kids reach more academic achievement. A 2019 year-round school scheduling analysis was put out by PubMed Central (PMC). " Students may lose knowledge and skills achieved in the school year during the summer break"(PMC). This is true because there have been many studies and research put out. Many low-incom4e students are likely to forget what they have learned in the previous school years, not just low-income even middle-income students. Year-round school helps overcome that problem by maintaining academic progress over the year. Many families put their kids in year-round schools because of other benefits, such as saving money, school facilities, and staff resources. They have smaller class sizes and close to no overcrowding so the school can provide more personalized attention to students. They have been proven to decrease school absences among students and teachers. Because teachers have to be on the school campus year-round students that are struggling can have easier access to tutoring and support.
Those were the benefits of having the year-round school schedule and what they offer. But to having pros there are cons. One of the main ones pertains to family vacations because most families often plan trips around the traditional school schedule. Extracurricular activities, sports, and programs over the summer also correlate with established school schedules. Having year-round would limit the activities a student could participate in. Because of no summer break students and teachers might likely burn out. Because a long summer break might impact their well-being, some students need more time to "recharge" and time for family and friends or maybe just to themselves. Increased operational costs are also a challenge. Like regular schools, schools may face higher costs for maintenance, utilities, and staffing since the entire building is used year-round. With this teachers may have less time to prepare a curriculum for the school year. Additionally, schools may have less time for repairs and renovations done to the school, which is because most schools go into renovations and repairs during summer break. With these potential problems, it would complicate the transition to a year-round schedule. So it presents a significant amount of challenges that need to be considered.
My opinion on year-round school is we shouldn't have it, even if it comes to considering it. I like our traditional school schedule and how we have a summer break. Taking in the benefits of the standard school schedule it opens up more time to spend time with families and have vacations. It aligns with our sports and extracurricular activities. Yes, students are bound to forget some parts of learning from the year before, but with the help of teachers. We have it so they can help us with the subject and reteach some of the material. But if we were to have school year-round the teachers would be drained out from constantly teaching. This is the point of having a summer break to provide teachers and students with time to rest or recharge. We (students) don't want to be drowned in schoolwork. We need to leave it how it is so students aren't overwhelmed with how much information and learning they do. I wouldn't have a problem if it is like changing the hours we study, but if it were to change it so we have year-round school. I say it would be a bad idea. There are things I haven't mentioned, like how it could help us. But even with the information I haven't said, I don't think it would convince me to say we should have year-round school.
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1.) What do you think about year-round school?
2.) Would you prefer the year-round or traditional school schedule?
3.) How would year-round school affect you?
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Great topic choice and super job Sergio!
I don't think there should be year around school at all. I think that it should just stay the same and not chnage, because I think that would effect the student's a lot and it would mess with them from going to a normal year to a all around school year. It's something that's different but i don't think that should happen at all.
What do you think about year-round school? I do not believe we should have year-round school. There are many reasons why. One of them is that there is not very much time for vacation to travel. Another reason is that there is less time for kids to be in activities and less time for kids to have some time to themselves.
I agree. Vacation is a very important thing to some people it is a way to get away from whatever it is that they are doing. Vacations are perfectly aligned with the traditional schedule rather than the year-round one. Also, I feel like it is true, that students would have to work around the barrier separating them from school and activities, or just having time to themselves.
I think year round school would be a bad idea, Traditional school is just fine were gonna have school either way so why change it up.
I would prefer the traditional schedule
Year round school would affect my family trips, weekends, and sports.
1.) I do not agree with year-round school because students would have less time to spend with family members. It also allows students to give their brains a break and they can do fun things like vacations and going to fun places.
I also think that year-round school would separate the time that they have with family and friends. Mostly family. So I believe that we should stick with the traditional schedule rather than the year-round one. We need to have a long enough break to rest that is why we have summer and they only have a two-week break.
I think that we should at least try it because some people might like that more than what were doing right now. I couldnt say I prefer it because we havent tried it yet but it couold be better. I just think it would affect summer for us with not having such a long break than tridational.
I don't think I would like to have a year round all school personally but that could differ between people. I would be find with sticking with a traditional school schedule. I don't think it would affect me too much but who really knows until you actually try it out.
I agree. There are people with different opinions and some could enjoy having year-round school rather than the traditional. Only I probably wouldn't, I would have to try it to decide if I actually would like going. I don't think that it would affect me much after a while, only in the starting weeks of it because it is new. It could change my mind about how I feel.
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