Year Round Schooling...

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  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    I'm very much looking forward to my vacation to the midwest in October. It's the only time of the year I actually want to go back to my hometown.
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    Currently America is not even in the top 10 on pretty much any form of education so obviously something is going horribly wrong, I say get that year round cycle into play and let's get back in the competition before we all get left behind



    Actually, the demise of American education is greatly exaggerated. Well-financed schools and middle class kids are doing just fine, even when compared to students in other countries. Kids who are fortunate enough to go to school in well-funded suburban districts are getting a quality education. We don't seem to be doing very well addressing issues of poverty.
  • rahrahrita
    rahrahrita Posts: 225 Member
    I went to a year-round school from pre-k to my senior year of high school. It was also a Catholic school so we had a couple of days off for religious holidays that other schools don't have, but we still had the same required number of school days as other schools in the area. I loved it!!

    School starts in early August (my brother started today, the 6th), break in October, Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, spring break, and then summer for June and July!
  • WhoTheHellIsBen
    WhoTheHellIsBen Posts: 1,238 Member
    Currently America is not even in the top 10 on pretty much any form of education so obviously something is going horribly wrong, I say get that year round cycle into play and let's get back in the competition before we all get left behind



    Actually, the demise of American education is greatly exaggerated. Well-financed schools and middle class kids are doing just fine, even when compared to students in other countries. Kids who are fortunate enough to go to school in well-funded suburban districts are getting a quality education. We don't seem to be doing very well addressing issues of poverty.


    I'm not sure if I would say 'greatly exaggerated' I went to a middle class high school and recieved books from 2 decades earlier, some with out of date information, our standards have been lowered making the bar easier to achieve, and just in general you can see students of all ages with all levels of income who seem to know less and less than previous generations. Most kids do not even use entire words let alone know how to spell them, let's be honest the scariest thing about movies like Wall*e and Idiocracy is they are slowly coming true
    I had many great teachers in my time but also many horrible ones that somehow still stay on payroll and I have always been in a middle class bracket. Feel free to reference South Side Jr. High of manchester N.H., this is as middle class to upper class as it comes, I had a teacher there who would go on vacations in the summer, take a ton of photos, make a slideshow, then sit at home and video tape himself watching the slides and explaining where he was. The school and school board were well aware of his prctice and considered this acceptable.
  • SafioraLinnea
    SafioraLinnea Posts: 628 Member
    I believe there are pros and cons to both the year round and the 9 month systems for schooling. I personally think I would prefer year round schooling for my future children because I would have preferred it as a child. I hated (and still do as a college student) the huge break during the summer, and would have far preferred to have 2-3 week breaks more regularly.
  • OnionMomma
    OnionMomma Posts: 938 Member
    In our state they are not allowed to start school before Labor Day.

    We did have a couple of schools on the year round schedule as a trial basis. From what I was told, the parents and teachers loved it. But the program was yanked and all schools in our area and now back to the 9 month schedule.
  • Alphawolf02
    Alphawolf02 Posts: 94
    I am a huge supporter of year-round school. The kids won't have as much time off at once, which means they will retain more information from the previous year. Teachers spend too much time reteaching children what they learned the year before, and children waste too much time during the summer. There should be more focus on helping children keep their minds engaged over breaks, instead of just letting them sit in front of the television playing video games and watching crap.

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