Year-round schooling is a bad idea. The main reason it's not yet extinct is because people think it "increases student academic achievement". This claim is not even remotely true.
By collecting data from over 345,000 north public schools,the North Carolina department of public instruction found that the student achievement was virtually the same between year-round and traditional calendered schools.
(Year-round school in the United States)
This is only one of the many studies performed that have proved the year-round schooling concept is not an advancement in schooling. Just a more stressful method of teaching the same stuff.
Unlike their peers in schools with traditional schedules, students in year-round schools don't have major breaks. To complicate matters even more, in some of those schools, not all students are even on year-round schedules! This means some students will be stressed, tired, unstimulated, and confused, until they leave or graduate year-round school entirely.
Since 1980, 95% of schools who have tried the year-round schedule have switched back the next year.
(YRS - the issues)
Year-round schooling isn't anything new, infact, it's been around almost 200 years.
So why isn't being used as the traditional schedule in the majority of modern schools? Because it doesn't offer what it promises.
"If you want to go to school in the summer, go to summer school."
(prestonfitzgerald)
There is already so many flaws in the traditional school system. Why make school even more inefficient? Year-round schooling is simply a bad idea.
Works Sited:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year-round_school_in_the_United_States
http://www.compclass.us/yre/my_view.html
http://www.auburn.edu/~enebasa/html/issues.pp.html
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