Many times, unfortunately, this situation lasts for the entire 180-day school year. What good is an "A" if the student isn't further developing their mind? What good is going to school and not learning anything because it is all so difficult? The answer is "no good." Students who need extra intellectual attention, whether it addresses their difficulties or their talents, shouldn't have to wait for summer to receive it; that would be "no good."
Online classes required self determination and a lot time. This is definitely not what I had in mind! Procrastination and grades don’t mix well and the outcome has many consequences. Happiness is hard to achieve when you are always in a rush to finish a task that was supposed to be done weeks or even months before hand. For example I waited all summer to sign up for fall classes and as a result I got stuck with most classes that other students didn’t want to take.
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.
In my essay I will examine three things I need to do to change my attitude on my education these things are; go to totoring, study, and stop procrastinating. I am doing exceptionally well in all my classes except for one Ms. Boykin’s Algebra II class. It is my fault because I don’t wake up early enough to go to tutoring in the mornings. My strategy for the 2nd semester is to study and to stay on top of make up work when I am absent and go to tutoring to get help on things I don’t understand. Since high school I’ve been doing poorly in math but, I’m not going to let it get the best of me and I will do what ever is necessary in order to pass and graduate in June.
It was only my second year of teaching in the school district and I was a probation teacher. I could be fired easily for any reasonable explanation. This instance might not get me fired but the principal might not be on my good side and look for anything to fire me. In my first years of teaching, any extra money would help me in paying my bills and student loans. I was doing extra work being an advisor for this club and not receiving compensation for it.
1-2) A traditional school year would have a 180-day school year with short breaks for the holidays followed by a 12-week summer break. After that long break over the summer, where the kids are most likely sitting around doing nothing beneficial to their education, they tend to forget most of what they learned the previous school year. That is called summer learning loss. In a year round school calendar, schools still only have 180 days, but more frequent breaks will be given. With more breaks about 1-2 weeks long, students wont forget what they learned before the break.
Not many people stop to question if the information they are reading or being taught is factual. While the events Loewen points out may have some discrepancies in US History lower-learning textbooks; this does not mean all textbooks are incorrect. If anyone were to research any single US historical event he would end up finding out information he may have not been privy to through textbooks. Keep in mind, to incorporate every detail into one United States (US) History textbook is an unfathomable task. Students wouldn’t be able to carry the textbook and it would take years for teachers to deliver them information to him.
I am sure that most all of you have experienced to joys of summer vacation. The three months of no school, no responsibilities, and the freedom of not having to write an English paper or finish a list of Math problems. However, although you may remember the fun of summer vacation, you may also remember the weeks of preparation and review that went into the beginning of every new school year as you had to relearn last year’s material that you had forgotten over the summer. This is not a unique experience for students coming back from summer vacation. Learning is wasted because of knowledge not being retained through the three months of summer.
For some strange reason, students act as if they do not need a textbook for the course. If students remember that they need a textbook, then they spend it on something they really do not need. Finally, students feel that having a textbook is not important. To illustrate, some students can go an entire semester without books and can still pass with the course with a B or C. Consequently, students do not have a book because of a lack of funds. Secondly, some students do not have books for class because they lack transportation.
In the summer time it is very hot most days and schools without air conditioning would be very hard to learn in and for teachers to teach. When the summer comes around students begin to give up on their school work because it is so nice outside that they want to be out there instead of in school or doing work. If school was during the summer time a lot of students would not be completing their work. When it is hot in the school most students find it hard to learn and concentrate. If your school did not have air conditioning it would be very hard to learn during the summer