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    The Benefits of Year Round School The idea of year-round school is foreign to most people and they become uneasy when the subject is mentioned. A modified year-round schedule means having longer breaks throughout the year and a shortened summer break. For instance, school would start in July and end in May. That is ten months of learning and two months of summer break. An extended school year, like every situation, comes with advantages and disadvantages. School’s genuine purpose is learning,…

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    Year Round Schooling Year round schooling has become more, and more common in the United States. The summer break is removed from the schedule and replaced with a series of breaks placed throughout the year. The most common session is in school for 45 days with weekends off and a 15 day break. Some have seen this as an improvement and some have seen it as a problem. Some positive points to year round schooling is that the pupil attendance remained stabled or improved, teacher attendance…

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    Schools across the United States are ditching the traditional school year calendar for a year-round school schedule. What exactly is year-round school? According to www.opcionescholarparaninos.org, it is a school with a calendar that exchanges a longer summer vacation for several shorter breaks at various times in order to reduce the need for extra review. Most students in year-round school are in class about the same number of days as students on a traditional school calendar. What some people…

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    Year round school is looked down upon by many students and parents. But what if they were to realize that students attend the same amount of days that traditional schools do with more breaks. Year round schooling should replace traditional schooling to improve students academics and benefit families. In the first place, year round schooling has many advantages to students academics. The National Summer Learning Association said that kids do forget many things over summer break. This shows…

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    better if the school that they attend has more education days and more time in school and year-round school have that type of school structure. Although multiple students would prefer having the summer break, districts and education systems say that year-round schools are the way to go. Schools around the United States should adapt to year-round schools because the students grades tend to improve…

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    The Rochester School System has a 43 percent graduation rate(Rochester). The debate is whether a year round school year would improve the graduation rate. The theory is children forget some of their studies over a 3 month summer vacation and such have to be retaught some of what they learned last year in school. This practice waste teachers ' time because they have to reteaching last years lessons. This is one of the arguments for students going to school all year round. There are a number of…

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    wonderful school has changed its schedule. Instead of having an amazing long summer break, you’ll have to go to school all year. No more beautiful beaches. No more summer camp. No more going to grandma’s house in Pennsylvania. It feels like your world has been crushed. Your mother says you’ll still have a 3-week long vacation in the summer and multiple short vacations throughout the year. But you protest it’s just not the same. That is what many students may experience when their school district…

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    Summer vacation is important for students who want a break from school. School causes stress for many students who try their hardest to succeed in academics. Taking away the one thing students look forward to, summer time, is a punishment to all in the school system. Switching to year-round school would cause students’ interests to decrease dramatically within the first year. Year-round school should not be endorsed because students would have more freedom, their sleeping schedules would be more…

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    Do you think that having school year round would be more beneficial or would it have a more negative impact? I believe that having school year round would be more valuable to have. Having school year around could help by: not being as hard to forget information, more time to understand lessons and help cure less boredom in the summer breaks. First, having school year round could help students to not forget information from the previous year. For instance, whenever I come from summer break I…

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    traditional school year has been in practice for decades and in this time, has shown that it is greatly successful. To switch to year-round schooling would overall be incredibly inconvenient for each person involved. The traditional school year should remain in Niagara because in comparison to year-round schooling it is less expensive, more convenient for parents, and offers more opportunities for students. Funding for education is expensive enough as is, and possibly making the school year…

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