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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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 spend more time in class is hard to decide. Learning
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distracts kids and can cause a huge affect on how they learn in school. One of the cons about year-round schooling is it takes away from family time. Some reasons are that they have less time to see their family because they do not have summer break to spend time with them. It also messes up a family's work schedule because you would need
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“Should our School be Year-Round, or Should Students Have the Summer Off?” Year-Round schooling versus the traditional school calendars are a very wide and discussed matter in today’s society. There are many positives and negatives to this subject, although it appears there are far more pros to year-round schooling. Some of the discussed topics of year-round schooling are the concerns of it, the advantages and disadvantages, and how it is effective. The concern on year-round schooling versus
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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 schools wouldn't have to spend so much time reviewing in
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schooling does not provide as much of an opportunity for learning as the regular school calendar. During the summer break, students can get opportunities to gain experience through summer jobs. This experience can be considered equivalent to learning in school because it provides the students to face the real world and understand what it is like. If year round schooling is implemented, then summer will be cut short and as a result, students will not have enough time to familiarize themselves with the
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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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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 is still widely implemented among the United States even though statistics are proven against it. Year round education needs to be
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My Summer With The Warriors Moniette Wells ENG121: English Composition I (AXC1314C) Shayla Gordon May 6, 2013 My Summer With the Warriors The screeching sound of the alarm has me reaching over to hit the snooze button for just 10 more minutes, but I know to get there in time I must get started. It’s the last week of May and most families are preparing for the usual Labor Day festivities. A day filled with BBQ’s, fireworks, friends and family. My Labor Day will include friends and family
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families and friends making plans and looking forward to summer, they are more worried about the here and now. The money that was in the summer vacation jar, is now slowly disappearing to compensate for the extra few bucks it cost to fill our tanks each day, week, month. How is it that another summer is on the horizon and instead of slow building excitement, I’m getting a slow building dread. There really is nothing better than the start of summer, and I really don’t mean to put a negative spin on it
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conduct a survey of tourism consumer behaviour influencing Malaysian student’s destination choice during the LJMU Summer Semester Program. In this section, there are a total sample size of 70 and 100% of them had travelled during the past 3 months (referring to appendix 7.3.1a). Besides that, 74.3% of respondents strongly agreed that it is important to travel during the LJMU Summer Semester Program (referring to appendix 7.3.1c. A.Scott-Halsell and Saiprasert (2011) stated that the travel destination
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No summer break? Summer is amazing but year round school is a great idea. Do you know how much time we spend revewing the stuff we learned last year? Now imagine that all of the review time is going to summer break! That is exactly what year round school is except it is just split up in diffrent parts. Infact you have the same number of school days as a traditional school year. I know how painful it is letting go of your presious summer vacation, but there are more pros then cons in a yearly school
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many basic and positive benefits to this plan, and some are easily reachable. School should be all year because without summer students could have more breaks throughout the year, teachers would prefer it, and students would learn better. Summer vacation for schooling originated in the early 1800’s when farming was a major industry in the US and other countries. During the summer months parents and children would all be required to work and get the farming
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The summer workout plan is created and put together to ensure that each student athlete is dedicating days of the summer break to staying in the best basketball shape possible. It is also allows you to have structured routines to help maximize the time you spend working on your speed, strength, agility, and basketball skills. Yes, I understand that you are on summer break and what to hang out with friends or go on family vacations but you can not neglect your responsibility of an athlete. Just as
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Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares is 320 pages long and was published by Delacorte Press in 2001. This is a work of fiction designed for young adults. The book is about four young girls that met at the earliest stage in life and become best friends. This summer will be the first time that they are going to be away from each other. It will be a time in their lives that they do the most changing from who they were to who they will become. This novel is about friendship and growing up. Four girls from
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established in major city urban areas that includes, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Buffalo, and in Detroit. The traditional school year includes about one hundred eighty days which is about 9-10 months. That leaves about two months for summer vacation. They have small breaks from school
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was the last time you made a decision that changed your lifestyle? For myself, it was the day I decided to quit softball. I remember my mother asking “Do you really want to quit softball?” Without hesitation, I said “yes”. Did I really think about how different everything was going to be? No, I would say I took the easy way out. Even though there were bumps along the way, I would say I believe everything happens for the best. It was around Fall season in 2012, when I made the decision to quit, just
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it’s not fun to go out because you will be stuck in traffic. However, this year’s Labor Day weekend was amazing. It was a nice mini vacation that was much needed for my family and I. My families ranch was a nice getaway for my family and I because we got to spend quality time with each other; something that is very rare when we are at home. My family and I went to spend time with some family members at their ranch and spent three relaxing days there. My mother had planned to leave on Friday evening
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explained throughout this essay. Year round education has many benefits for the students and the community. One of the biggest benefits is retention rates of the student. Retention rate means how well the student
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Why we should go to Orlando, Florida for our family vacation I know our family has been dreaming about the ideal vacation. We have talked about several different aspects like where should we go, should it be warm, should there be snow, should there be a beach, how much shopping will we want to do, and what kind of entertainment would work the best for us? We want to make sure that we can organize and plan a vacation that will create the best memories possible, so that our family can
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Don’t you hate coming back from summer break only to find out that you don’t really remember 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
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other articles however were very intriguing. I loved how the class was set up it felt less like work and more like just a great big discussion/learning experience. I do wish that the article write up were worth a more for grading. For future students of this course I would advise them to take head to the schedule given in the syllabus. Spacing out the assignments like suggested to make the work load less of a load. I would say that they should Spend at least 4 days a week dedicated to the class and
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lived her life in Saudi Arabia for many years. It was not a big surprised for us when she decided to convert her religion into Muslim since it was the right thing to do before marrying someone who is Muslim. In 2005, she decided to spend her summer vacation in the Philippines for almost two months. This year was a year of disaster for our country after the back-to-back bombing, kidnapping and hostage taking by the well-known group of Muslim people known as Abu Sayyaf. My mother’s plane
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Paper #2 02/08/2015 The Causes of Technology/Paper #2 The first article “How a Demon iPad Stole My Summer Vacation” by Doyle McManus I found to be a mirrored image of what most average family vacations probably are like. I agree with most of the viewpoints McManus points out in his article. The biggest one being the disruption technology has caused in the family. Family time is nothing like it used to be, not only on vacations but also in the household. Like McManus points out, family time spent together
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year-round school systems continues to grow, the debate of the superior has remained unknown. In the article, “Should American Schools Go Year-Round?”, writer Sindhu Nair discusses the differences between traditional and year-round school benefits, and how year-round school may affect commonalities within households today. Nair starts by discussing what traditional school is stating that the traditional American school year was designed around a nine-month schedule requiring 180 days in the classroom
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Daily Living Expenses * Daily living expenses are those costs that pertain to everyday life such as groceries, auto insurance, gas, mortgage or rent, utilities, cell phone, Internet and cable. To figure out how much a person needs after retiring, he can first examine how much he spends as a worker. Different factors contribute to the need to adjust it up or down. Children who move out of the house reduce the expense. However, if he and his wife will be spending more time at home and eating more
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and Science Study (Martin, Mullis, Gonzales, Smith, & Kelly, 1999), have shown that countries in which students spend more days in school and more time during the day on mathematics and science instruction demonstrate higher achievement in those subjects” (McMillen 67). Since most standardized tests focus mainly on mathematics, science, and english it makes sense that students who spend more time on those subjects score higher on the tests. Therefore, year-round students outscore their peers in traditional
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back in time like a time machine to that night. It wakes up emotions and memories from that summer. I remember, that summer, I was on vacation in Montenegro with my best friend. We were spending days on the beaches drinking cocktails and nights at local bars with our favorite music. Just when the summer seemed it could not get better, I met her. She was my best friend’s friend and I don’t know how we had not met each other sooner, from that moment I saw her, I knew that I wanted be with that
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Remembered as a hot day breeze, fast going and cool. A summer to be sought for. My family and I travel by car. The journey convinced on a road trip across hot desert borders through the mountain daring roads of Mexico. The destination La Yerbabuena Michoacán took around two and a half days to arrive. With views time wasn’t a problem. A small village like town where both my father and mother families originated from. Abundant various things to do while there, some even tradition. For the duration
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Gurshaun Singh Professor Duran Principles of Marketing 7 July, 2010 Marketing Giant of the Desert Palm Springs is a city in California mostly known for its great attractions and countless fun exciting things to do. In a way it's more of a Vacation Resort than anything else. Palm Springs strives off tourism, it is the most important income in the whole city after sales taxes and property taxes. Tourists visit Palm Springs mostly in the winter when everything is open to the public. During the
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