Advantages of Going to a Year-Round School
UMUC ASIA
WRTG 101 - INTRODUCTION TO WRITING
Shields
FS2, 2009
Monday and Wednesday, 2000-2245
Instructor e-mail: melley@informatik.fh-kl.de
Student: Brianna Whales
Student e-mail: boxer22@hotmail.com
ASSIGNMENT: A5
Title: Advantages of Going to a Year-Round School
All primary and secondary schools in the United States need to change from the traditional schooling system to the newer educational system of a year-round schooling system. A traditional school system is one where students go to school for nine months out of the year and receive a three month summer vacation, whereas students in a year-round school system follow a cycle of forty-five days in classes followed by a fifteen day period of rest, for the entire calendar year. Students in a year-round school system get days off for holidays, too, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, but often the breaks are much shorter and their summer break is only a month and a half long instead of three months. However, the advantages of attending a school with a year-round schooling system by far outweigh the disadvantages. Some of the advantages that will be discussed are retention of learned material from the whole school year due to a shorter summer vacation, reduction in disciplinary problems, and increased motivation among teachers and students. The number one benefit of going to a year-round school calendar is that students are not as likely to forget the material they have learned over their summer break since the break is only six weeks long instead of twelve weeks long. In the traditional schooling system, teachers “spend up to six weeks in the beginning of the school year just going over what was learned the year before, refreshing the students and sharpening the skills previously introduced.” (Boeye 1) Since the traditional schooling system spends so much time reviewing old material, traditional American schools “do not score as well on tests because of the wasted time relearning old material
WRTG 101 - INTRODUCTION TO WRITING
Shields
FS2, 2009
Monday and Wednesday, 2000-2245
Instructor e-mail: melley@informatik.fh-kl.de
Student: Brianna Whales
Student e-mail: boxer22@hotmail.com
ASSIGNMENT: A5
Title: Advantages of Going to a Year-Round School
All primary and secondary schools in the United States need to change from the traditional schooling system to the newer educational system of a year-round schooling system. A traditional school system is one where students go to school for nine months out of the year and receive a three month summer vacation, whereas students in a year-round school system follow a cycle of forty-five days in classes followed by a fifteen day period of rest, for the entire calendar year. Students in a year-round school system get days off for holidays, too, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, but often the breaks are much shorter and their summer break is only a month and a half long instead of three months. However, the advantages of attending a school with a year-round schooling system by far outweigh the disadvantages. Some of the advantages that will be discussed are retention of learned material from the whole school year due to a shorter summer vacation, reduction in disciplinary problems, and increased motivation among teachers and students. The number one benefit of going to a year-round school calendar is that students are not as likely to forget the material they have learned over their summer break since the break is only six weeks long instead of twelve weeks long. In the traditional schooling system, teachers “spend up to six weeks in the beginning of the school year just going over what was learned the year before, refreshing the students and sharpening the skills previously introduced.” (Boeye 1) Since the traditional schooling system spends so much time reviewing old material, traditional American schools “do not score as well on tests because of the wasted time relearning old material
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