Year-Round School

[JackieChin]

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If you're not familiar with this, its when summer vacation is completely annihilated, replaced with a longer holiday break and a longer spring break.

I dunno, it just seems kind of not right to me. Summer = freedom in my book.

[JackieChin]

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Then again, alot of knowledge is lost over summer break, so..... whatcha think?

[Arf2184]

We used to be on a track system. There was too many kids for all to go to school at the same time, so they put each kid on one of four "tracks". My sisters and I were on B track. My cousins were on C Track. How they did it was one or two tracks would have vacation while the other tracks went to school. It worked pretty well. We had storage bins to put our things in during the break (since our classroom would be in use by another track while we were gone).

If I remember right, we had March and September/October off. It was in California so March and September were like summer, but a little wetter. My cousins were off in the summer and mid-winter.

During the long break, we could take fun classes that met two or three times during the break. My favorites were the cumputer class and Junior Zookeeper (at the local zoo).

[PrettyHate]

I NEED my summer break to work. Both to save up for school, and to let me get some money so my pay checks are more than $80-$200 every two weeks. Im lucky because I still live at home so I dont have to pay rent, food etc. But its still hard.

[Brea]

I think that summer is the time for parents to spend with their kids. They didn't have kids to send them off to school and have them spend the rest of the time at home doing homework. I think that the parents should have that time to infulance and direct their kids with morals, values and other beleifs. If you take that a way the school has to pick up with even more conflict resolution, angermanagement, home-ec. If the kids spend enough time at home unhindered with school work they learn to be people not robots. Do this asignment by this date, go here at this time, be at this class... Kids need to be kids. As for info lost over the summer, you are going to remember what you use. And when you do learn it a second time it is more likely to be remembered the more you go over it. All around I think that year round school is unneeded.

[wink568]

I know that I'm not in high school anymore, but I take college classes year round. It keeps me busy, and helps me so I take less of a class load each semester/session.

[Titanium]

I think that with long breaks you'd still forget alot of stuff. Plus, multi-child families would have a harder time planning vacations if their kids were in different tracks.

[mommy2ryan]

My kids do this and it keeps them fresh and interested. I have a hard time occupying my oldest

[Chinchillagrl06]

I think Year Round School works great for elementary age kids. I did year round until middle school and loved it. 3 months on 1 month off basically. It was great... just when you start to get sick and tired of going to school, you get vacation. When you start getting bored sitting at home, its back to school. It made me look forward to going to school. Helps parents too, they dont have to have daycare for long periods and can spread out their vacations to go when the kids are out. They dont have to worry about activities to last 3 months.

[Taylor Johnson]

I have to have summer breack for some reason thats like the only thing I look foward! but you would get just longer breaks so it would not be to bad the only reason is that summer is when all of my realitives come up and stuff so that would be a bummer to have to be in school while they were here!