Ian Brown Mr. Moran English I - Honors 12 March 2012 Year-Round Schooling Pro Rebuttal The issue of having year-round school in America or not has been going around for decades. This system is practiced throughout the world with the huge exception of many of our schools. Some claim that it doesn’t make a difference to a child’s scores, but spending more time in the classroom, with shorter but often breaks, can keep their mind refreshed. Even U.S. President Barack Obama stated that the hardships and new challenges in this emerging century “demand more time in the classroom.” Some opponents of this system say that our summer vacation is the perfect time to have a full time-off and that you won’t lose much of what you learned the previous school year. In fact, according to a study at the University of Missouri, they found that many students forgot over two and one-half months of whatever their grade-level equivalency is in mathematics.
If schools just gave the year-round calendar a chance, they are almost guaranteed to love it. For example, in two short years Kentucky grew from having just two experiential year-round schools to having 186 elementary schools, fifty-eight middle schools, fifty-five high schools, and an additional thirty schools with altered structures (Chaika). If the experimental schools had not been successful, this wouldn't have happened. All schools in the United States should adopt the year-round schedule. Students might not be comfortable with the idea of YRS at first.
I hated to do this so as I said before, this teaches that lesson of what’s right and wrong, therefor learning civility. As I got grew up I learned something every year. In first grade I learned that when older people help younger kids out for a whole school year you can really learn a lot. We had 8th grade buddies that were there every morning waiting for us in our classroom to talk to us before the school day started. Our teachers were very old and wise so they knew that this wouldn’t just be a learning experience for the 8th graders but also the 1st.
Karlon King 1/3/13 English III-D1 Do you like to ‘chill-lax’ in the summer? Summer is the best time of year. It is a time when you get to stay out late and sleep in; also it is a time to simmer down from all the hard work form your past school year. Year round school would take that away from us. Many people believe school should not be all year round for many reasons.
The traditional calendar always has been the schedule for school since the 1800s. The traditional calendar is the 180 days system with a two month break for summer. It was not operated on the year round system back then, because children worked the fields of their farm in the summer. People believe that this traditional style should change because this is an outdated system (Year Round Education - attending school year round). Finally, in 1968, when the first school changed, they quickly reverted back because it caused disruption of families, little or no academic benefit, and saved no money (year-round school calendar home page).
Labour Day is a Dreaded Bell in the Schoolyard of the Mind In this short piece, Harry Bruce briefly explains the dread that he feels when Labour Day comes around. He constantly compares the good memories of his summer opposed to the negative things that he wishes to avoid. Being a student no longer pleases Bruce seeing how he has developed an anxiety towards the start of every school year. Within the first paragraph, Bruce mentions, “All this would end.” While talking about his experiences during this two month break. With his morbid sense of understanding he expresses his endless hatred and neglect towards the day that is known as “Labour Day”.
Kids won’t make a difference by focusing enough. You get the same amount of breaks just not a long break when it’s sunny and warm. They will just have to dream about having the summer break. The breaks are short for the kids. 45 days in school and 15 days off will cause too many disruptions.
Do you agree that the 1870 education act was a significant step forward for educational opportunities for girls? Although many see the 1870 Education act as a massive step towards women becoming equal to men, it was not. They gained access to education but not the same as boys and also only mostly domestic subjects. Even though education was made more accessible through new school boards, there were still hefty fees which people of only a middle or upper class could afford. Source 16 supports the statement by saying ‘In 1870, the Government made elementary education up to the age of 13 compulsory for all children.’ This shows that by opening education to all children aged 13 and below, they had approached the problem of uneducated children especially boys from falling into lower classes.
I believe that year-round schools should be at least an option in our district. First off, and very important to the students is that a year-round school gives students and teachers with a break every 2 months or so. Additionally, if we had the option of a year-round school then it would help to prevent some students from being taken out of school often for a family vacation to Mammoth or Mexico. Lastly, a year-round school would give the teachers a more time for teaching, ultimately letting them cover the required material more thoroughly. I believe that now is the time to change our educational system as we know it for the benefit of teachers, students and their parents!
In the small number of school that are already year round we can see the good result that they have in their state assessment tests where 70 percent of them pass, higher than the school that not participates in this program. One of the reasons is that teacher keeps working slowly and directly with every academic problem more time of the year and they do not interrupt learner’s process. While in traditional calendar they have long time disconnect to school skill and teacher spend six week reviewing the previous year’s lesson when they back to