Looking forward To My Summer Vacation I am really excited for summer to start. Even though it’s a short summer I plan on staying busy by wrestling, working out, and go to North Dakota Fargo. It going to be a busy summer and I can’t wait. This summer I will be very busy. I have lots to do it is going to be a short summer. I plan on wrestling, summer school, and training. The first thing I am looking forward is wrestling and lots of it. I need to start to be
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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” (Peters). However, this alteration does not come without inconveniences such as less opportunities for summer activities
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Its also harder for schools to run a year round schedule. Lastly, families need a vacation. Year-round school is an issue and is ruining our American tradition of a summer break. The first reason for kids to have a Summer break is because many kids feel they need a long break to recover from the academic and social pressures of school. According to the authors of “School Summer Break- Good or Bad?” summer breaks need to stay instead of changing to the new-year-round schedule. Some kids say
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Are Year-round School Schedules Better Than Having a Long Summer? Have you ever wondered what year-round education schedules do for students? Year-round schooling is not better for students than a long summer vacation. Parents may have schedules that don’t work with the year-round schedule, the schedule may get in the way of traditional vacations, and there is not much evidence supporting better grades in year-round schools. Student’s parents may have long work schedules that don’t work with frequent
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encounters on summer vacation and the author of this cartoon is Bob Englehart. He is speaking for the younger generation, he is trying to let the older generation know that there is never enough vacation for children and school is also overwhelming them. It shows that by the way the teacher is making them forget about vacation, just like vacation goes by quickly, they forget about it. More like the younger generation want a real break from school. Although, it is true, vacations go by so quickly
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be a part of. The image of year-round schooling is that students must go to school every day throughout the entire year with no breaks. This is a false image. Students are given frequent breaks throughout the school year to make up for the short summer break. It was first used in the 1800s, which goes against many people’s thoughts that it is a new alternative schooling proposal (Research). At that time, year-round schooling was used in industrial cities to teach English to children of immigrants
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People might think year-round schooling is bad,but there is a lot to it! Year-round schooling is better for students than a long summer vacation. This can help relieve stress, you forget information, and you have a greater chance of having a vacation. Having breaks more often can help relieve stress. “The frequent breaks offered by year-round schooling give kids more opportunities to relax and let some of that stress slide away.”(TenneySchool.com,6) Having a non-stop school can be stressful, but
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persuade the reader that E-learning days are good alternatives to snow days. First this essay will persuade the reader that E-learning days can save vacation days. With the E-learning days students do work on the snow days so that it will not be counted as a snow day. That would mean we would not have to make it up and shorten a scheduled vacation. One school in West Virginia in 2014 missed eleven days but because of E-learning days they were able to only have to make up one school day.Other schools
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isn’t based on farming during the summer, the September to June calendar isn’t needed anymore. The Blue Springs School District should adopt a year round school because it boosts education, you get more vacation time, and it saves money. Students in most year-round school districts spend the same amount of days in class as students in traditional calendar schools; the days are just arranged differently, with smaller, more frequent breaks throughout the year. The summer break is perhaps only a month
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By eliminating long breaks from school can improve a student’s academic achievement (DeMucha). Summer is where most of the students’ knowledge is lost. Long summers are known to cause “summer slide” (DeMucha). Summer Slide is a decline of academic skills that have been lost over the summer. With a year round schooling schedule students and teachers will still have a summer break, but it will be less than two months. Overall, year round schooling would benefit all students than the
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perfectly populated school through the multiple-track year round education system. This system features students attending school while another set of students is on vacation. For example, a school on a four-track system could hold 400 kids instead of 300 because they now are able to have 300 kids in school while there is 100 on vacation. The multi-track year round system has the potential to increase available space for enrollment by 20%-50% depending on how many tracks it wants to include, this would
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better for students than a long summer vacation. Year-round schooling would be better for students because the school will provide a more structured environment, students can avoid gaps in learning with shorter breaks, and students will get the same amount of days off but they will be separated. Schools would provide a more structured environment if students had year-round education. “The safety and dependability that school offers doesn't stop with the onset of summer,”(McGuire, 4). Students wouldn’t
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breaks. Year-round education is better than a long summer vacation. Having shorter breaks means that students won’t lose information. By having shorter breaks, they can go on more vacations. By having shorter breaks, they don't need to review work and just get straight to learning new things. Kids can experience new places around the world by having shorter breaks.”Year round schooling allows families to plan vacations at times other than summer”Readworks,6. Children can experience the seasons more
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To start, one reason why year-round schooling should be implemented into schools across the country is that year-round schooling can help prevent summer learning loss. The shorter but more plentiful breaks integrated into a year-round school schedule make these benefits possible. Without the long summer break, students are able to retain knowledge from the past school year, and this in turn, leads to more time for teachers to cover new material rather than reteaching lessons
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love to vacation there throughout the year. The mountains of Maine are truly beautiful, especially when covered in sparkling, white blankets of snow. Although seasons filled with sunshine and warmth may come to the mountains, this is not what mind conjures up when I think of the high hills and rocky terrain. My first thoughts are of the cold temperatures, ice and snow. Throughout the year, many choose the mountains of Maine for their vacation get a ways. The seasons of spring and summer are perfect
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how underprivileged children are affected. There are many children that are unprivileged that are going to schools that may not be the best school or a top rated school. However, at least when they are attending school they are learning. During the summer though, their home life may be even worse then what they are experiencing at school, which is going to cause a greater loss of knowledge. This happens because parents aren’t helping enforce what the child may have been taught or learned in school
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For community service, I have helped out with Sunday School and Vacation Bible at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hicksville, New York. I not only help out with my church, but I have helped out with Big/Little Sisters at my school. Also I helped out with three library events that helped our community this past summer. I am involved at my church in helping with Sunday School at Trinity Lutheran in Hicksville, since I was in sixth grade. There I do many things for an hour. I help children learn the bible
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Renowned for his clear and lively writing style, E.B. White has been regarded as one of the most successful children’s literature writers. Born on July 11, 1899 in Mount Vernon, New York, Elwyn Brooks White later attended Cornell University and pursued a career in journalism. At Cornell, he wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun. White wrote for several newspapers, including the Seattle Times and the United Press. In 1927, he secured a job as a writer for The New Yorker, an American weekly magazine. However
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The First Koehler-Stauder Ozark Vacation (1951) In 1951, Orval and Mary, with their children, Jerry and Mike, take a vacation with their brother-in-law and daughter, Ralph and Gwen Stauder. For one week, they share a cabin in a resort area called Arcadia. The two families spend a week in a screened in cabin. This is the first of many summer vacations that will be spent in the Ozarks by the two families. Orval is 43-years-old and Mary is 44. Part of the fun for Orval is spending the year sending
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or modified academic schedule“ (Kelly).Year round school systems were able to take more students because of their multi-tracking system. Although some students and parents may dislike year-round school because it affects students and teachers’ summer vacations and child care is difficult, year-round school should
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When it comes to the topic of summer break, most of us will readily agree that breaks are important, some people are convinced that schools should not have summer breaks, however others think that summer breaks should be maintained. I believe that The Boise school district should maintain their current summer vacation schedule because it allows students to gain the necessary skills to move on in life, traditional summer break schools have higher test scores compared to year-round schools, and it's
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Year-round schooling has signs of stress nerves rising. I believe that year-round schooling is miserable for kids. Once it’s summer, kids feel accomplished after 10 months of school. They’re many major flaws with year-round schooling. To finish it off, it gives children more space in life. Once the sun hits more than usual, kids wanna go outside. A quote from Julia Child reveals that, “You must have discipline to have fun” At school, kids have to be obedient, and follow orders all the time. To be
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Disney World: The Unhappiest Place on Earth Walt Disney World is often called the “Happiest place on Earth”, when in reality it may be one of the most miserable and regrettable locations anyone will ever waste hi or her days at. A vacation to Disney World is exciting and special to young children, but what about adults and adolescents? For them, it’s less of a paradise and more of a money and time-consuming tourist trap that will leave wallets empty and people exhausted. The truth, like it or
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editorial on the issue of American children spending more time in school. If students and teachers spend more time in school, they would have less time for summer and vacations. Not many people would want to agree with that idea since most people want to have a long and relax vacations after spending 8 months in school. It is not only about vacations but tests will be given more if they spend more days in school. As the title of the article, students will not like it. The issue that students should
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Traditionally, students go to school for a little more than nine months and have summer vacation for almost three. Lately, there have been debates about whether that is the most beneficial way to attend school. The other option is for kids to go to school year round. This way you would go for a few months and then have a few weeks of break all year. I disagree with this; I think we should keep school the way it is. Some people believe it would be better to have school year round because then
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instead of months off from school at time maybe students should have on month off during the summer. Having months off from school is a long time to have students sit and not learn anything that is beneficial for students. If students go to school year-round, it is much more likely that they will retain the information they learn in class, instead of forgetting most of it over the three months of summer vacation. Students get a couple weeks off total during a school year excluding weekends. The idea
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The final bell rings. It’s the last day of school, and summer has finally come! Students don’t have to think about school for at least another 2 1/2 months. That is the way it should always be. Schools should continue using the traditional calendar and not a year-round schedule. There are numerous downsides to year-round schooling. It has no positive effects on education, it adds to costs, and it disrupts the long-awaited summer vacation. Contrary to the well-accepted belief, year-round schooling
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Many people think that students that attend year around school have to attend school longer since they don't get summer off, but that's not true. Students who attend year around school have the same same amount of school days as the traditional school schedule. The only difference between the two is that a year around school is spread out more evenly throughout the entire year. And because the students have school year around they are better academically because they don't have a three month break
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Planning Your Perfect Vacation Choosing a destination for your vacation may be the easiest part of planning the whole trip but planning the details of it is the hard part. Some people have it down to a science and some do it all last minute. When you wait until the last minute to plan your trip it can end up being very expensive. I prefer to keep it simple and take my time planning my trip, keeping it as stress free as possible. The first step in planning your vacation is choosing the destination
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Year-Round School Is year-round school more beneficial to students and teachers then the normal school year? The traditional school year features the long 3 month summer break in between school years. Year-round school schedule features frequent breaks during the year but goes through the summer as well. Both schedules are the same length of school days and how many days students and teachers receive off. Although the traditional school seems to be working fine, having Year-Round school is more
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