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Other ways schools are trying to improve grades besides start times is setting the school year up differently. One way you can set up the school year differently than the normal nine month long year and three month summer vacation is by having year round schooling. With year round schooling, school is still in session for one hundred and eighty days each year, but it is more spread out. A common way it is done is by attending school for forty five days at a time and having fifteen day breaks in…

The Thirty Years’ War was a change between actions for religious reasons to actions for political reasons. The war started with Ferdinand II’s war against Frederick V to regain the Bohemian Crown that was originally his, but after Frederick had been defeated, Ferdinand, who was Catholic, completed the goal he set previous to his war against Frederick by demanding that all lands originally Catholic that became Protestant be returned to Catholic. He also decreed that because Calvinists were not…

why some schools have year round school and why some schools have a traditional school calendar. I believe that year round schools are a great thing to have as a school calendar. There are many benefits that come along with the year round calendar such as more family time, and better more balanced calendar. Also at the same time there a many loopholes that come with the year round calendar such as there is a lot of money that needs to be spend to maintain the school year round, and many…

Year-Round School Students who attend year-round school are in the classroom for a certain number of weeks and are given short breaks frequently. Some people feel discouraged by year-round schooling because they fear children will be tackling multiple activities at once, causing overpowering stress (“The Pros and Cons of Year-Round Schools”). Others, however, feel confident in year-round school because it provides children with a better opportunity to remember the lessons they’ve learned…

Introduction 3,181 schools in the United States run on a year-round schedule. This means those schools don’t have a 3-month summer vacation. Instead, students are in school for 45 days then have a 15-day break through the entire school year. With so many schools following this track it is easily assumed that it is a better choice than the traditional system. But, year-round schooling isn’t better. Many experts agree that year-round schooling can cause stress and frustration. This suggests that…

Each year, school districts are faced with a growing population of students. The issue with this is that many districts have a shortage of school facilities, and they are limited to the amount of money they can spend on each of these facilities. To handle this issue, school districts around the world have adopted a year-round school calendar to ensure they are using these existing school facilities to their full ability. Year-round schooling arranges the breaks differently, causing students to…

When children hear the term "year-round schools", their faces may become full of disgust. However, year round school can be a major benefit to not only students, but also teachers and the school itself. A year round school calendar should be mandatory because it improves academic performance, teacher job satisfaction, and the financial state of the school. Year round school has been proven to improve students' attitudes towards school. Many students prefer year-round school as opposed to the…

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…

The possibility of year round schools has been a hot debate topic for the last ten years. But, keeping a student's attention for nine straight months is a hard task. It is especially hard when teachers constantly give homework to students. Students get so burnt out by everyday school, that they are more concerned about getting through the year than really learning. Some even take days off of school because it begins to be too much. In year-round school you don’t have to worry about making it…

The New 180 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your school switched to year round schooling? If so, there are many good reasons to favor going school year round. First, it would lessen our summer learning loss effect to a great extent. Secondly, summer education programs that are used to get kids back into the swing of things would no longer be needed. Lastly, short breaks allow students to recharge themselves for the weeks to come. Over the summer, students lose their focus on…