Gap year

Should Schools Be Open All Year There is a reason schools shut down for three months for summer break, and it’s not a good one. Originally, the system was created to allow children to help their parents on the farm over the warm harvesting months. This system was created during the 1900’s. Since then, the multiple aspects everyday life have changed, and so should our outdated school schedule. Converting American public schools to year long schedules would help keep the students’ brains more…

a new modified year-round school schedule. Year-round schooling will prevent loss of knowledge over the summer, stop summer boredom, and create the opportunity for kids to get right back into it at school after break. In the United States, as of 2014, there are only 3,181 schools that have the year-round schedule, 10% of public schools have this option, and only some of the 46 states’ schools run this way. Year-round schooling should be held at all schools. But the problem with year-round…

schools affiliated with their client base (Marsh). Opponents of year round education often cite no significant difference in test scores after the implementation of a longer calendar (Dessoff 40); this is very short-sighted because the small gains which are seen in younger grades can amount to exponential increases once the child reaches high school. It is a question of fixing a small problem…

just to see where everyone is at after the break. It’s should be a review. You’ve learned all of this last school year, but you can’t seem to remember anything. Just last school year, you would have aced it, but the whole quiz looks unfamiliar. Summer learning loss. Every student experiences some form of summer learning loss. Whether it is forgetting material taught from the previous year, or forgetting how to act in a classroom,…

The Benefits Year-Round Schooling Since the beginning of time, teaching and learning has been a detrimental part of what makes us able to innovate and experience the world around us. A form of schooling introduced in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s was a year round school system (Pedersen, "The History of School and Summer Vacation"). This system allowed for more days within the learning period and allotted for students to get more out of their education. Research from all the way back to a…

Carolina Department of Public Instruction, defines year-round schooling in the following way: “Year-round education (YRE) reorganizes the school year to provide more continuous learning by dividing the long summer vacation into shorter, more frequent breaks” (p. 68). Traditionally, schools in America function on a 10-month schedule with two months off for summer break. On average, students receive two weeks off in December and one week off in the spring. Year-round schooling is occurring more…

traditional school year and having a year-round school calendar. Three hundred years ago, schools were created with the thought that students needed to have the summer off with the busy farming season. The United States is no longer an agricultural society and needs to rethink the school year. The students today are competing with other countries and the children are not doing as well academically. Having year-round school can lessen this gap. All the public schools in the United States need…

studying through the years. In a certain extend summer vacation is beneficial to students. Although too much of anything is not good. Long summer vacations will give individuals a loss in academic skills and knowledge over the course of the holiday. With summer vacations ranging to six to fourteen weeks, students face the fear of learning loss. The phenomenon where young people lose academic skills over the summer, is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and…

able to start families and rise out of extreme poverty to become just poor whites instead of extremely impoverished whites. The merchant class in North America grew and prospered, especially during the height of the Enlightenment. However, the wealth gap remained ever extreme, especially as a highly concentrated group of elites gained much of the wealth through trade and plantations while many people in urban areas grew increasingly poor. Higher still on the social ladder were the proprietors…

children completely forget the word “school” and enjoy the free time as much as they can. Unfortunately, the consequences after this three month vacation strongly affects the student test achievements in a negative way. The problem is being discusses for years and there are not any permanent solutions yet, but there are many proven facts, which indicate that when children are outside of school and are not at all engaged to their education, it is really hard for them to keep up with the material…