Year Round School Downfall

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Year-Round Schooling: The Downfall The United States school systems have been on a traditional calendar of roughly nine months of school and three months summer vacation for the last one-hundred years or so. It seems to work fine; the vast majority of people to go through the traditional calendar don’t seem to be defective in any way. Yet some want to change it; some school officials want to fix something that isn’t broken. Some feel if we have our children go to school year round with more but shorter breaks, they will retain more information and get better grades. The problematic ‘solution’ of year round schooling that is being done by some and considered by more isn’t worth the money, the issues that would arise, and the trouble it would cause for the teachers, children and their…show more content…
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