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Some schools are switching over to a year-round schedule. Year-round school does not help students to be more successful because they do not retain knowledge better, test scores are in the same range as standard nine month schools, personal activities and sports are harder to make time for, and year-round schooling is not beneficial for all schools. Schools in Asia have a very strict year-round, long school hours schedule. “The only research to support this (year-round schooling) is from…

summer memory, whether it be spending time at a grandparent’s farm, a family lake house, or maybe even traveling to another country. How would a child’s life be affected if they did not have a traditional “summer break” and instead they were in school year round, having small breaks in between each nine-week period? They would still be in school the traditional 180 days, learn the same material, and still progress through grade levels normally. The benefits that the students and faculty would…

Year-round schools reshapes the educational system and enhances student learning. Students benefit from losing portions of their summer since they obtain more knowledge with implementing smaller breaks. It reorganizes the standard 180-day school calendar in several tracks to choose from. Year-round schooling provides a better choice for students to develop and articulate their learning skills within a flexible schedule. Multi-track schools provides students an educational experience that…

celebration of Vietnamese New Year, Tết Nguyên Đán, is considered the most important festival for the Vietnamese population. Unlike the Solar calendar, when the New Year occurs in the winter, Vietnamese New Year takes place during a transition period between winter and spring, celebrating the arrival of spring. New year day is considered the first day of spring, and lasts three days; but celebrations often continue for approximately one week or more, with preparation for the new year taking up…

causes stress for many students who try their hardest to succeed in academics. Taking away the one thing students look forward to, summer time, is a punishment to all in the school system. Switching to year-round school would cause students’ interests to decrease dramatically within the first year. Year-round school should not be endorsed because students would have more freedom, their sleeping schedules would be more flexible, and they would have more time for summer jobs. Having more freedom…

The Thirty Years’ War, which lasted from 1618-1648, ravaged Europe for three decades aimed at the control of Germany by the Habsburg House that had ruled the Holy Roman Empire since the fifteenth century. This war was sparked by the Protestant Reformation that had begun in 1517. Though the war was destructive on all accounts, it did help shape today’s modern Europe. This essay will evaluate the Thirty Years’ War and how it helped form the modern state of Europe. The Thirty Years’ War was both…

The Benefits of Year Round School The idea of year-round school is foreign to most people and they become uneasy when the subject is mentioned. A modified year-round schedule means having longer breaks throughout the year and a shortened summer break. For instance, school would start in July and end in May. That is ten months of learning and two months of summer break. An extended school year, like every situation, comes with advantages and disadvantages. School’s genuine purpose is learning,…

traditional school calendar will typically score lower on a test that was taken at the end of summer break than on the same test taken at the end of the school year. Some people believe that year round school schedules are very disadvantageous but actually year-round schooling is very advantageous. Therefore students at Shattuck should have a year round schooling schedule. A few reasons for this is that there are shorter and more frequent breaks, there are more opportunities for vacations and…

Year Round Schooling Year round schooling is an idea that schools across the United States are discussing. The school calendar consists of the same 180 instructional days, but the instructional days and vacation days would be divided into smaller units. The school year can be divided into forty-five instructional days and fifteen vacation days or sixty instructional days and twenty vacation days. These calendar days are called tracks. “A single track is when the sequence of the instructional…

by your life spent outside of school. In a year round school students learn at a constant pace of one subject after the next. Giving you no time to forget what you had just learned, In year round school students get the environment of always learning with no distractions to stay on track. Through year round school you are able to get the time you need to recover during break. But not long enough for you to forget what you had just learned the past year, you are always surrounded by knowledgeable…