Persuasive Essay On Year Round School

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Adolescents, today face a widespread chronic health problem: sleep deprivation. Society often views sleep as a luxury that active people cannot afford, research shows that getting enough sleep is a biological necessity, as important to good health and eating well or exercising. Students need some time away from school, homework, and sometimes their friends, but they can get that time going year round. Students, today are in so many activities like lifting, band, sports, plays, musicals, and clubs, which results in them not getting the sleep they need. Although some people think that students need a summer off, I think that school should be year round because students will still get breaks during the year; they will get a better education and year round schooling benefits from low-income families.

Yes, students will still get the same amount of break time, maybe even more. The way this will happen is that there is a plan called "Multi-track" systems. The school is divided into four or five different "tracks." Vacations are staggered between the tracks in such as way so …show more content…

While kids love summers, their brains do not. By going three months without using critical thinking, children are losing a bit of what they have learned each year. At the end of the long break, teachers are finding that they have to take extra time at the beginning of the year to re-teach their students the things they already learned the previous year. Three months might not sound very long, but for a child it can seem like a lifetime. It's all about scale. Think of it like this: Three month in the life of a ten-year-old makes up .025 percent of their life. For a thirty-year-old adult, .025 percent of their life is nine months. Could you just take off from work for nine months, never use your work skill in that time and expect to work as well as you did beforehand? None of us think that we could do that, but it's actually harder than you

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