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Did you know that having year-round schooling causes more stress on students than not having year-round school? Year-round schooling has been a controversial topic since the early 1900s because many people have different opinions about their children’s learning experiences. Some states in the south, including Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas, have already switched to having year-round schooling, and this is quickly spreading throughout the…
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“ Year Round Schooling “ According to “ Debate over Year Round Schooling” (Presson, Abby) “Many school systems claim that year-round programs put the facilities to better use”. The school systems claim this because year round school systems are using the schools more often than non year round school systems. Year round schooling started to become popular, “Faced with the issue of overcrowding, many school systems turned to a year-round or modified academic schedule“ (Kelly).Year round school systems…
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Essay- Year-Round Calendars Summer Vacation- the one thing every student and teacher counts down as soon as school begins. In a child’s point of view, summer is the only free time off from school, and the time where they can kick back and relax. Only recently, schools are switching calendars to a year-round schedule. Having a year-round calendar would be more desirable as opposed to the traditional three-month summer vacation in various ways. It would allow students and teachers more breaks within…
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One day, on the way home from school, my mom told me she was going to make up some new rules for me and my brothers and sisters. Before this, we knew she wanted us to be good, but we really didn’t have any rules. Well, Mom took care of that. On Sunday, she started giving us the “house rules.” Clean your rooms every other day. Be ready for dinner at 7:00 p.m. (that means sitting at the table, with clean hands). If Mom is having a meeting in the house, be very quiet (that means turn down the music…
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Year-round school is when students “attend classes for anywhere from six to nine weeks in a row, broken up by two- to four-week vacations.” “The idea of year-round school began to gain momentum in the 1970s” but only recently became a major topic of discussion by “educators, parents and social scientists.” “The National Association for Year-Round Education states that the number of students in year-round schools has tripled in the last ten years. By 2001, there were about 3,000 year-round schools”…
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Year round schooling, the name seems a lot worse than it is. A typical belief of year round schooling is that students attend more days at school because they are in school a year long, but instead they break the long three month break into smaller pieces. Year round schooling provides a more beneficial education to students of all ages. With the all year schedule students do not spend a long period away from the classroom; therefore, students are able to maintain their knowledge. Traditional schooling…
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Year-round Schools The possibility of year round schools has been a hot debate topic for quite some time. The question is, is the idea of year round schools acceptable considering all the potential drawbacks? Year round schooling can be disruptive to both the family of the students and the teachers themselves, it can be too costly for a large group of people, and year round schools do not provide the same opportunity for learning as the traditional school year does. For several reasons, the…
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much of what you learned the previous year? Public schools in the United States should switch to a full year school schedule with school 9 weeks and a 3 week long break. Students would attend school the same amount of days, but the days would be arranged differently. Year round school helps with test scores, avoids people getting sick of school, and will let us catch up to Europe and Asia in education. First of all, students and teachers would get sick of school less quickly. With a regular schedule…
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Year-round schooling began as early as the 1800s in urban regions such as New York and Chicago, according to Joe Matthews, a staff writer for The Los Angeles Times (Matthews 2). In year-round schools, students attend classes for periods ranging from six to nine weeks straight, which is then broken up by two to four week vacations. The traditional school year, which has three months of vacation every summer, is a result of the United States of America’s past agricultural society. Due to contemporary…
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The United States has the shortest school year, however like other successful countries, some states such as Wyoming, Mississippi, Maine, and a few others have a year-round schooling system, and experience students who have higher test scores and retention rates. It won’t take much to help the U.S. and we can become a high ranking nation in the educational system if we copy these other states and countries in adopting an all year-round schooling system. There are many basic and positive benefits…
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