If you bring up year round schools most students and teachers would be all against you. But some people think that having school year round would be a good thing to do in the United States. People think that we need to greatly improve our education system and think that year round schools are the way to go. There are many things, good and bad, about this idea and that is what I’ll talk about in this post.
How it would work would be kids would have school for 9-10 weeks at a time and then would have like a 2-4 week vacation type break. I think if they did this they could implement a system where if a student is failing then they would have to come to school until they get their grades up before they get their break. This could be a great way to motivate students to get their grades up and keep them there until they leave for the break.
There is a lot of good that could come from year round school but there is also a lot of not as good. To start with good things, there would be a lot more students that would learn more than they would and they wouldn’t have a 3 month summer vacation to forget everything they learned in school that year. Kids would also be able to learn a lot more in the span of the weeks they are in school knowing that they would be rewarded a 2-4 week vacation at the end of the stretch.
Some bad things would be that some kids would get sick of going to school in that 9 week span and would be intrigued to skip quite a bit of school and that would not be a good thing. Another bad thing would be that people would hear year long school and immediately say no so it would be a difficult thing to get approved, but I think it could be good if it did.
I think this would be a very good thing to do especially if we get a 2-4 week vacation every 9 weeks. I feel like this would be a lot better school system than what is being used right now. One downside would be having to randomly change your schedule eventually after 2 or 3 of the 9 week spurts.
Do you think this would be a good idea? Would this benefit you? And how?
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I don't think this would benifit me because i have a job that I work in the summer. But if we were to get a year long system we would only get 2 weeks of break and it would make it difficult to work that job
This is a very good point. I completely agree with you on this because most high school students and even some middle school students have summer jobs and they wouldnt be able to make as much money with only a short break to work in.
I do not think this would be a good idea because like you said kids would be bored and would be more tempted to skip school. And I think we should keep the school system like it is because we get a longer time on break. So kids are still able to work their summer jobs.
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