Year Round School Advantages And Disadvantages

High schools that have implemented a year round schooling calendar have experienced more disadvantages than advantages. The cost to put this plan in a new district is costly, there is no reported significant advancement in test scores, and it takes away a child’s summer that is used to learn some of life’s greatest lessons. YRS causes many issues with family life and a family’s budget. The biggest advantage for year round schooling has been said to be that it will keep a student from losing information over the summer. Most students forget information that they learned a week ago if not reviewed multiple times. Research has said that within an hour of learning information, the average person can learn 50 percent of what they were taught.

Without this break, the teacher can become less prepared and become burned-out easily. Whenever a teacher doesn’t want to teach, it teaches students to not want to learn. Many students learn some of the best things that they will use forever, outside of school. This is where taking away their summer break comes into play, not only does it help a student get a full-time job, it allows children to go to summer camps and participate in extracurricular activities. A student can learn multiple things by going to a camp that schools just can’t teach. A teen getting a job, teaches them how the real world works. People can sometimes forget how important summer breaks are for kids. There will be no sense of when the school year and when it begins. The summer is the “right of passage” transforming you from a junior to a senior or your step from elementary to Junior high. The passage will have no meaning. A child will not feel as if they are in a new class. Without them, kids would think that school is a non-stopping boredom that lasts 12 years. Although these breaks seem long, teachers can give out homework that can take the length of the break. These 15 days you get off no longer seem like a break due to the