Year Round School
Education is valued highly in today 's society, for the next generation to lead this country they need to know as much as they can. Teaching children the basic mathematics, English, history, and science now starting in kindergarten. With courses, advancing teachers reteach the basics at the beginning of every school year. Imagine all year at school, no three month summer vacation, just all year school. What would that be like, and would children enjoy it? Would the teachers? Teachers will have to make lesson plans, and subjects to study that matches that grade level, and also skip seeing their children for summer too. All year at school means less time out of school and may even boost children to higher grades so they can …show more content…
No one wants to give up their summer break for anything, especially school. Children enjoy their summer, it is the time they can do whatever with no interruption, like run outside all day, swim, or hang out with friends. Many teenagers have summer responsibilities, bailing hay, for example, is an all-day activity and is easier to start in the morning so it is not too hot and teenagers cannot bail hay for their parents or some old man who needs help if they have to be at school. With no teenagers making hay, for old men who need help, who is going to do it? Summer is also a time for families to visit other family members out of state or go on family vacations together, they cannot go on vacation with school taking up that time. Goff explains that “when you choose an exciting new place as a family, it helps you bond and learn new things about each other that you don 't get to see every day,” …show more content…
Children benefit from year round school because they are not in a hurry to cram everything they need to know for that year in just short nine to ten months. Teachers can slow their speed and actually teach students everything they need to know not just what they need for a test, which seems to be regular in many schools. Students will not forget the education that was taught, for they will not have summer vacation time to forget about school and what they learned from it. Cooper had done experiments on children loosing education while on summer break and his results are stunning, and cooper commented that “most students lose about two months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills over the summer months”
Education is valued highly in today 's society, for the next generation to lead this country they need to know as much as they can. Teaching children the basic mathematics, English, history, and science now starting in kindergarten. With courses, advancing teachers reteach the basics at the beginning of every school year. Imagine all year at school, no three month summer vacation, just all year school. What would that be like, and would children enjoy it? Would the teachers? Teachers will have to make lesson plans, and subjects to study that matches that grade level, and also skip seeing their children for summer too. All year at school means less time out of school and may even boost children to higher grades so they can …show more content…
No one wants to give up their summer break for anything, especially school. Children enjoy their summer, it is the time they can do whatever with no interruption, like run outside all day, swim, or hang out with friends. Many teenagers have summer responsibilities, bailing hay, for example, is an all-day activity and is easier to start in the morning so it is not too hot and teenagers cannot bail hay for their parents or some old man who needs help if they have to be at school. With no teenagers making hay, for old men who need help, who is going to do it? Summer is also a time for families to visit other family members out of state or go on family vacations together, they cannot go on vacation with school taking up that time. Goff explains that “when you choose an exciting new place as a family, it helps you bond and learn new things about each other that you don 't get to see every day,” …show more content…
Children benefit from year round school because they are not in a hurry to cram everything they need to know for that year in just short nine to ten months. Teachers can slow their speed and actually teach students everything they need to know not just what they need for a test, which seems to be regular in many schools. Students will not forget the education that was taught, for they will not have summer vacation time to forget about school and what they learned from it. Cooper had done experiments on children loosing education while on summer break and his results are stunning, and cooper commented that “most students lose about two months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills over the summer months”