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. (Wilkenfield) Plus after the summer vacation, many teachers end up spending from four to six weeks of the next school year trying to review what had happened in the previous years, says David Payne, a former principal. Summer vacation is one of the only major times that parents are able to travel or take vacations, however, year-round schooling which allows small breaks throughout the seasons. Also, travel rates during the summer are usually higher than other times of the year. When students return to school after a summer break, there is often a long time period of adjustment.
No one knows for certain if the customary nine month schedule or the year-round calendar will work better. At the core of this debate there are two opposing sides: one of them is that the traditional calendar should still be used, and the other side is that schools should change to year-round school. According to (mondofacto) year-round education is a customized school schedule that gives students little breaks all through the year, as an alternative of the traditional three-month summer vacation. Year-round education has the identical number of days as the nine-month schedule, except the summer break gets shortened. And it is turned into shorter more numerous breaks (Year-Round Education).
Kimberly Northcraft English 102 MWF 8:30 February 12, 2013 Exploratory Paper Does year-round education seem like a logical system to follow? The controversy of switching from the traditional school calendar to the year-round school calendar has been around for a while. Schools in America would still operate on a 180 day system, but the amount of school and vacation time will be distributed differently throughout the year. Schools would switch from long segments of schooling at a time to shorter, broken up segments. The one thing that people generally think about first is the distribution of their vacation time.
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.
Kendrick Watts Moyer English 1020- 026 10 February 2014 Is College Really for Me…?? In the essay “Is College for Everyone” by Pharinet, discusses that it’s not mandatory to attend a college institution to obtain a well-paying job. In the beginning of the essay Pharient refrains to a statement that students hear every day, “You want get anywhere without your education (635).” This is a statement that many teachers and parents repeatedly preach to their child since they were kindergartener’s. Pharinet also explains in a reasonable tone, that having a college degree doesn’t always bring success in most students’ life. Mainly because, students are not properly preparing themselves to what seems to be the “real world”.
A graduating high school senior, one generation ago, would earn approximately 36% less than a college graduate; today the study has shown that the difference is now 76%. The National Science Teachers Association has also prepared a study that has pinpointed what is actually lacking. The N.S.T.A. has determined that the focus on core curriculum at the high school level seems to be what has gone awry (Association), unprepared students, either directly entering the workforce or seeking tertiary education, are so deficient in basic skills that it is hindering advancement in the workforce or college. The unprepared student yields workers which may not be able to handle the changing technologies, or lack of qualifications to handle basic tasks, and mediocre college student, making it difficult, the goals for which the student had hoped to realize.
Senior Year Was a Waste When most people think of their senior year many thoughts come to their minds like: prom, homecoming, the sports they participated in, and friends that they loved to go out with. Although, these activates were enjoyable, they did not teach me anything. I think my senior year was a waste. Senior year was a waste of time because there are not many new lessons learned, and the few lessons that are taught you have to learn over in college. Academics in the last year of high school are pushed to the end of the list of importance; therefore, it makes academics unimportant.
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
However, many believe two years is waste time. Students lose many chances to find part-time jobs and find out what the real world. First, money is the most important thing that students consider when considering living options. Dorm rates at Pepperdine range from $5440 to $6825 per semester, but only $5200 to $7200 when living off campus. Living off campus can also provide more comfort and freedom.
The "summer slide"(Maclean's, 2010) is where after three unproductive months of no schooling the students tend to forget the information taught from the previous year. A year-round schooling schedule that also implements intercession classes in their model are able to offer a wide variety of classes that cannot be given during the school year. If intercession is in place, the students can still come in on their off schedule for exciting studies such as music, art, sports, and many more subjects depending what the school is able to provide (Wildavsky,