Should Schools Change To Year Round Schooling?
Is this the calendar that we want to work with? The year round calendar has its advantages and disadvantages. The definition of year round schooling is not to increase overall school time, but to spread the school time more evenly along the entire year. We still get the same amount of break time and school time.
Pros:
- Year round(balanced) calendar gives the students less time to forget the things that were previously learned(through long summer break). It is obvious that remembering things from one month ago is easier than recalling things after the long summer break.
- Having the break balanced throughout the year means that each semester or term will be shorter. Doing this gives more breaks throughout the entire year.(Ex. Eating food is good, but it is said that eating more small meals rather than big meals is healthier.)
- Balanced calendar is also better if students want to frequently go on vacations. They do not have to wait for a long term or semester to end to go on vacation.
Cons:
- Balanced calendar gives you a shorter amount of time in each break. Say you were wanting to go see your family in Australia, the airplane ticket would not be cheap. But if you only get one month of break, you would have to come back in a much shorter time. Wouldn't staying there for two months and buying two tickets be better than going there one month and paying the same price?
- Balanced calendar might disrupt certain educational programs that were established long ago. A math program might require five months to complete, but you only have 3 months in a term! How am I going to finish this program! It is probably not that easy to create a completely new program just based on the new calendar.
- The balanced calendar gives less time on a specific course. This means that the course will have to change(probably give less things to do) to fit the new schedule. Or they will have to make the students change their working habits and students will have to work more in a less amount of time.
My Opinion:
To me, the balanced calendar seems a better idea than the calendar we have now. This balanced calendar offers far more possibilities of learning than the standard calendar. I also support the balanced calendar because I don't really need the time in the summer break. There are very few times when I actually use the two months for something constructive. Most of the time, I just end up at home wondering what I can do to fill this time.
Online Sources:
"Year Round Schooling" - Melissa Kelly
"Pros and Cons of Year Round School"
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The calendar is hard to see but if you see it up close, you can see things that don't apply to our calendar (like hurricanes). What are somersets and browards?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you since my parents don't take me on vacations much and it is really waiting for two months with nothing to do. Also, during that time you could lose a lot of memory and skills.
Well done Mark!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your opinion since my family, also do not go to long vacations much but would it really help for people who goes to summer school to finish more subject earlier and go on to the next level? for example my brother, who is grade 10, is taking chemistry 11 and biology 11 and taking physics 11 in summer school. where would he be if he hadn't take summer schools? Because I don't think summer schools will work properly with lots of short breaks
Great job mark! Using that picture of the balanced calendar was a really smart idea! Also Before, I was against year round schooling, and after reading your post, i'm starting to second guess myself about what i think about it. Next time you post though, try not to write in point form considering these are supposed to be multi paragraph posts. But over all i thought it was really good, and i agree with a lot of your points! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteThank you all for the feedback!
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