Comments on: Ask Mike: Year-Round School

By: Hope

Hope — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:32:19 +0000

I posted twice but now three times but this one has something i learned actually that Year Round School has its ups and downs.
Kids with 3 months of summer gets away from all tht Drama and Fights and Bulles…
WHO WANTS THT!!??

By: vdfkjfjf

vdfkjfjf — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:44:38 +0000

gfjtfigtf Answer: It’s important to understand that most students in year-round schools attend school the same number of days (usually 180) as students in traditional nine-month schools. So for most students, there is not the advantage of additional time in the classroom.

What’s different about year-round schools is that the days are arranged differently. Instead of the traditional nine months of school and long summer vacation, the students have several short vacations all through the year.

Summer programs such as youth camps suffer.

Many schools are older and do not have air conditioning.

There are chances of increase in the budget as well, because the management needs to spend more on the purchase and preparation of food for breakfast and lunch in the school.

By: Coralie

Coralie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:36:23 +0000

While in theory, it sounds great to have a break every six weeks or so, it won’t really be a complete break from school. While I do not attend a year round school, when I have a significant break, I always end up having homework. Unless teachers can guarantee there is absolutely no homework over the frequent breaks, this system should not be in place. Everyone needs a break with completely no work. While it may be just fine for elementary schoolers, when you’re in high school, most students want/need a job. They don’t have time during the school year because of homework, so thus they work during the summer. But during year-round school, summer work is out of the picture. How can teenagers pay for college and cars if they can’t work? If my school was to start such a system, I would seriously switch to a private school. It would just be absolutely awful for a high schooler, because work is so much more demanding at high school. A three week break may suffice for an eight-year old, but a high schooler needs the whole summer to recover from school. Not to mention do the loads of summer homework assigned for an AP course. In addition, I don’t understand how a teacher with children in another district would work at a year-round school. A lot of teachers are attracted to teaching because they get time off to spend with their children. That is one of the reasons why I’m considering the field, since I want to raise a family, too. But year-round school would defeat the purpose of that.

By: drew

drew — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:00:21 +0000

Summer benefits me because it is a time to work and make cash. And If you actually try in school, you remember more of the knowledge. But it would be cool to have 3 week breaks every two months

By: taya

taya — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:12:43 +0000

i would hate school round.the school year is way to long. you can barly spend time with your family.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:19:09 +0000

year round school would flippin make your brain EXPLODE!!!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:23:15 +0000

I’m 14 and I agree with year round schooling because we spend way too much time in the beginning of the school year reviewing what we learned in the previous year. Summer vacation is also WAY TOO LONG, there’s nothing to do all you do is sleep and do mostly non-educational things. It’s not like we wont have any breaks, we will. In the long run we will be grateful that we spent so much time in school, we can finish it earlier and get started on our careers. People don’t realize that college is around the corner and you need all the help you can get.

By: Banana

Banana — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:10 +0000

I used to go to a year-round school. I went from 6th-8th grade, and I’m in 10th now. That was actually my favorite school, I loved the curriculum and the teachers knew what they were doing! They knew exactly how to transition from one quarter to the next. ‘Year-round’ is a misnomer, in the sense that the school year does actually have vacations (whereas the name implies that it doesn’t). The school I went to was 45-15, or nine school weeks and three vacation weeks. That’s a good schedule, because it means longer breaks, and that means longer vacations for spring break & winter break!

The only downfall, in my opinion, probably depended on the specific school I went to (I’m not sure if the rest had this). It was that we went to school from 9:30 to almost 4:00. It’s less class hours by a small margin, and I liked not getting up at 6:00 like I do now, but at the same time, I lived pretty far away from the school and didn’t get home until 5pm. Which, speaking as a teenager, is *really* lame. I still live an hour’s bus ride (with that crazy route) from my school, but at least now I get home at a decent hour… well, if 3:30 is all right.

Anyway, I’ve digressed to the point where I have no idea what I was talking about. I’ll just say that I’m also doing an essay in English (probably a radical distance from Malak) and I agree, this helped.

By: Malak Bazzi

Malak Bazzi — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:59:20 +0000

NO school shouldnt go to a year round schedule! I hav to write an essay in my English class and this blog thing really helped! THNX

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:26:28 +0000

it is never a 3 month break anymore anyway more like 2 months nowadays. Every school is slowly adjusting to the year round thing, winter and pring breaks are becoming longer and summer is gettting shorter