Pros And Cons Of Year Round School

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 different models out there, some have student in school for 60 days then off for 20 days, others use a 45/15 model. Students are still in school the traditionally 180 days a year, their vacations are just spread out. The theory is that children do not forget over shorter vacation. They also can get remedial education faster by not having to wait for summer vacation, it can be done during off times and such the children do not get as far behind. Year round school do work “...if the school intentionally …show more content…
If students are not learning in a traditional school year, it is up to the adults to find ways to help them graduation. A year round school system may just be what the students need. Without an education the children have not hope of a future. Education needs to be made a priority for all those involved in our children 's lives. I think trying a year round school is the only way we can see if it will work, it is better than doing nothing and leaving things the way they are now. We already not the outcome when school is out all summer. The original reason for schools off in the summers were children were needed on the family farms to help in the summer and there were no air conditioners and the schools were too hot. Since most of the family farms are gone and there are now air conditioners, those not good reasons to have summers