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. 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.
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.
Hey Hunter and as always...Meow.
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