The year-round schooling program often receives a thumbs-down due to the additional burden it places on parents. With frequent breaks under the year-round education system, working parents will have to scramble for daycare arrangements. According to Pearson and Geier (2014), families can end up having siblings on different attendance schedules. If children in one family are not on the same school schedule, it will not be possible to arrange family vacations. A community member interviewed by the Florida Times Union (2014) also adds, “Like the failed school uniform policy, the year-round schools calendar failed due to failure to capture the hearts and minds of parents who complained of having to change or cancel family vacation.” “The lengthy
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The proposal for year-round schooling will have to pass through a series of the hurdles before anything can be done. The hurdles can range from school administrators, students, parents, teachers, taxpayers, the district school board, business industries, and even to the state’s Board of Education. Getting all groups mentioned above to agree on just one proposal alone is easier said than done. Despite how perfect and promising a system may seems it cannot pleases everybody. If people are not in the same boat on this topic, the amount of commitment will vary widely. Cooperation and dedication is essential in carrying out changes but will never be achievable when the crowd is divided in half. Data accumulated from several studies suggest that the district school board must carefully consider the concerns of the entire community before presenting the notion of year-round schooling. Since the change will directly affect all levels of the community, it is in everyone’s best interest to weigh the disadvantages against the advantages before deciding to adopt the year-round education …show more content…
All reforms mentioned above are reasonable, but converting to a school system that attempts to address educational concerns by moving the school schedule around is not the way to go. Many districts have tried and rejected year-round schooling program due to inconclusive data and unpromising results. The program was not able to adequately address problems in regard to learning loss, overcrowding, and academic performance. Furthermore, the year-round education system only serves as a partial solution, if not a quick fix, to some of the largest issues facing public education today. Education reforms are progressive and results cannot be achieved in a short period of time. School districts that adopted the year-round education system and have switched back to the traditional school system claimed that they were unable to win the cooperation of parents, teachers, and students. To put it simply, educators found it too hard to fight tradition. “Student performance rests on many variables including the quality of the teachers, the involvement and support of parents, and who the students are as individuals” (Carter, 2008). No single reform alone can solve the
The proposal for year-round schooling will have to pass through a series of the hurdles before anything can be done. The hurdles can range from school administrators, students, parents, teachers, taxpayers, the district school board, business industries, and even to the state’s Board of Education. Getting all groups mentioned above to agree on just one proposal alone is easier said than done. Despite how perfect and promising a system may seems it cannot pleases everybody. If people are not in the same boat on this topic, the amount of commitment will vary widely. Cooperation and dedication is essential in carrying out changes but will never be achievable when the crowd is divided in half. Data accumulated from several studies suggest that the district school board must carefully consider the concerns of the entire community before presenting the notion of year-round schooling. Since the change will directly affect all levels of the community, it is in everyone’s best interest to weigh the disadvantages against the advantages before deciding to adopt the year-round education …show more content…
All reforms mentioned above are reasonable, but converting to a school system that attempts to address educational concerns by moving the school schedule around is not the way to go. Many districts have tried and rejected year-round schooling program due to inconclusive data and unpromising results. The program was not able to adequately address problems in regard to learning loss, overcrowding, and academic performance. Furthermore, the year-round education system only serves as a partial solution, if not a quick fix, to some of the largest issues facing public education today. Education reforms are progressive and results cannot be achieved in a short period of time. School districts that adopted the year-round education system and have switched back to the traditional school system claimed that they were unable to win the cooperation of parents, teachers, and students. To put it simply, educators found it too hard to fight tradition. “Student performance rests on many variables including the quality of the teachers, the involvement and support of parents, and who the students are as individuals” (Carter, 2008). No single reform alone can solve the