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I don't believe in all year round school. Children need breaks in order to function properly at school. I am a high-school teacher and I know for a fact that when you give time for the children to rest, relax and have fun, they work much better than the ones that are all day studying.

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All the year-round schools that I know of have good breaks, usually 6 weeks long, two or three times per year. What they find is that the breaks are not so long that the children lose all their momentum in the subjects, while still getting good vations.

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I have to agree with the 'momentum' argument as I have seen it with my own daughter. After the long summer break, she returns to school, and no less to a new grade level, and she is having to take the first few weeks to get back to speed on concepts from the previous year. Plus, with the long breaks, parents are strapped to find resources to take care of their kids, and usually have them end up going to the same school for the SAC (School Aged Care) program they offer. So the kids end up back in school anyway. Maybe not to a classroom setting, but in the same environment, with the same set of kids, etc.

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I dont think year around school would be good I think it would increase student drop out rates no one really likes to be in school.

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Does anyone remember why the school year used to be the way it was? It wasn't actually summer, but was late summer/early fall, and it was for the harvest, because so many children would be absent from school anyways to help their parents/families bring the harvest in.

Now personally, I think that it is good for kids to be out 'roaming around' for a while in the summer..for a variety of reasons

1. It gives teachers a break and lord knows they need and deserve it too, more than the kids perhaps.

2. Kids also deserve a break, and who knows, when they spend time with their peers, instead of turnin into young hoodlums, might actually learn something about social interactions..

3. It also allows parents/adults to plan for family vacations, which allows for family bonding time (that is, if we don't all kill each other first! )

4. How much learnin can one poor brain take anyways? Don't you notice that although for overburdening reasons that k-12 schools in major cities are going 'year round' you don't see the same for colleges? (with a few summer programs that students are not required to take to keep grants/loans/scholarships being the few exceptions!)


THAT BEING SAID! I do think that VOLUNTARY summer school is a good idea, the same way that it is a good idea in colleges, to allow students to accelerate and/or catch up on their studies.

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School year round would be awful. Summer is important to help earn money for college.

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I think year-round school is a bad idea. My mother is a college professor and she nearly burns herself out every nine months and it is only the summer break (and looking forward to the summer break) that keeps her sane.
From my own experience I can say that after the long summer break I found it difficult to come back to school, but when I look back on the best times of my life, none of it was during the school year! If school ran all year it is likely that I would have missed out on many of the events that have shaped me into what I am today (and I like how I am today). Even if it is true that students would still have the same amount of time off; with the time being broken up into smaller sections it would be harder to plan meaningful vacations (like touring the USA.)
There has also been alot of talk about how schools have to go over the previous years teachings. I personally don't see a problem with this; I believe people learn the best from repitition and to have that little refresher at the beginning of the school year makes it more likely that the information they need will stick with them. I have plenty of problems with the school system, but having no school for a whole glorious three months isn't one of them.
I like my summers, and I would fight fiercely any policy that tried to take it away from me or the children -Think of the Children!
-Unferth

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Name: Angie

Comments: I think all year round school would be cool because it would not give us students a bunch of down time and for us to forget what we had learned.