Dante Pietrzak
Dr. Callen
English 1020-0
11/28/2017
Balanced Calendar Schooling, Why It Shouldn’t Be Implemented Nationally
Within our society, schooling is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental building blocks to any successful person’s life. Besides job qualifications and requirements, schooling delivers social skills, problem solving, logical thinking, development of responsibility, morals, and so much more. Early schooling wasn’t seen as a very important until the 1600s and 1700s, when new ideas start taking hold. When this age of new reasoning, otherwise known as The Enlightenment occurred, rational thinking and education became a huge part of society. As a result of this new way of examining the world, society has changed drastically, …show more content…
Getting to the point, there’s been talk about how much schooling should be provided. Both in the present and the past school officials have advocated, used, or actively spoke against a new way to regulate schools and their time giving instruction to students. The majority of schools currently operate on a calendar that supports, usually, a two to three month break between school ‘years.’ “This system has proven to work, but revolutionaries consider an alternative: year long schooling. The number of public, year-round schools--also called “balanced-calendar" schools--increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2012, according to the National Center for Education Statistics…” (DeNisco, Year-round schooling gains popularity) Which leads us to believe that the nation is slowly giving way to the balanced-calendar schooling system. While in the theoretic perfect world, balanced calendar schooling would work, there are quite a few downsides involving year long schooling. The change in calendar just does not strike the balance necessary for societal needs, such as the economic …show more content…
While the year long schedule is hurtful to the economy, it is also to the welfare of the student and teacher body. Students and teachers alike will most likely experience exertion to a point of dissatisfaction, which will most likely hurt the scholastic ability of students. In the current day and age, the majority of schools in the nation support the ‘school year to summer break’ routine, and if changed to balanced calendars on a national scale, will most likely result in change of work habits. While this is not entirely a problem, it will surely be a growing pain if such decision is made. In a perfect world, a year long plan would only work to benefit the nation, if it hadn’t been going through such economic turmoil. To ensure the scholastic ability of the nation does not falter, year long school calendars should not be implemented as a national standard for public schools. Rather, the calendar should be given as a secondary option in private schools who could afford
Dr. Callen
English 1020-0
11/28/2017
Balanced Calendar Schooling, Why It Shouldn’t Be Implemented Nationally
Within our society, schooling is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental building blocks to any successful person’s life. Besides job qualifications and requirements, schooling delivers social skills, problem solving, logical thinking, development of responsibility, morals, and so much more. Early schooling wasn’t seen as a very important until the 1600s and 1700s, when new ideas start taking hold. When this age of new reasoning, otherwise known as The Enlightenment occurred, rational thinking and education became a huge part of society. As a result of this new way of examining the world, society has changed drastically, …show more content…
Getting to the point, there’s been talk about how much schooling should be provided. Both in the present and the past school officials have advocated, used, or actively spoke against a new way to regulate schools and their time giving instruction to students. The majority of schools currently operate on a calendar that supports, usually, a two to three month break between school ‘years.’ “This system has proven to work, but revolutionaries consider an alternative: year long schooling. The number of public, year-round schools--also called “balanced-calendar" schools--increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2012, according to the National Center for Education Statistics…” (DeNisco, Year-round schooling gains popularity) Which leads us to believe that the nation is slowly giving way to the balanced-calendar schooling system. While in the theoretic perfect world, balanced calendar schooling would work, there are quite a few downsides involving year long schooling. The change in calendar just does not strike the balance necessary for societal needs, such as the economic …show more content…
While the year long schedule is hurtful to the economy, it is also to the welfare of the student and teacher body. Students and teachers alike will most likely experience exertion to a point of dissatisfaction, which will most likely hurt the scholastic ability of students. In the current day and age, the majority of schools in the nation support the ‘school year to summer break’ routine, and if changed to balanced calendars on a national scale, will most likely result in change of work habits. While this is not entirely a problem, it will surely be a growing pain if such decision is made. In a perfect world, a year long plan would only work to benefit the nation, if it hadn’t been going through such economic turmoil. To ensure the scholastic ability of the nation does not falter, year long school calendars should not be implemented as a national standard for public schools. Rather, the calendar should be given as a secondary option in private schools who could afford