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This article gives a lot of different reasons as to why having year-round schooling would be a bad idea. The first reason it gives for year-round schooling being a bad idea is that it would be way to costly. Another reason it gives is that it would make it extremely inconvenient for family's that might have one child following the traditional calender and one child following the new calender for year-round schools. it also says that if a family has two different kids following two different schedules, it would be next to impossible to be able to find a time to go on a family vacation. Next, it says that if students go to school year-round, it would drastically cut into their time able to spent with their family. It also says that although people think students will learn more if they go to school year-round and have shorter breaks, they will be able to retain information better when in fact a study shows that kids that follow the normal calender and kids that follow the year-round calender score the same on a math test proving that it makes no change in how the retain information. The final reason it gives is that traditional school systems have been around for so long, it would be impossible for students, as well as teachers, to adjust to the new yea-round school schedule. (Pro/Con: Is year-round schooling an effective alternative to the traditional calender?).

In my opinion, year-round schooling is a very bad idea and they should not make students switch over to a new school system calender. First of all, a child is going to forget information weather they are out of school for 3 weeks, or 3 months (Year-Round Education.) People need to get it out of their heads that if they shorten breaks for children, they will be more likely to remember information. The only way a child is going to remember something is if he/she wants to remember it or if he/she was actually taught it correctly, which most of the time, they are not taught it correctly. Another reason they should not make year-round schools is that summer camps will greatly suffer (Year-Round Education) If kids to not have a long break such as summer vacation, they will have no chance to go to a summer camp. not only will this effect the camp, but it will make children less active. The United States is already the fattest country in the world and by making students go to school all year and not letting them have any free time will just make the situation worse. If they are constantly in school, when do you think kids are going to be able to go outside and play and get any type of extra exercise in their life? A final reason why year-round schooling would be a bad idea is that studies show against year-round schools having better test results. A school in Virginia has had a year-round school system for the past seven years and there had been no increase in test scores. (Despite Push, Year-Round Schools Get Mixed Grades). Since there is no positive academic outcome, the only thing this is doing is taking away kids summer vacation, which is just not the right thing to do. Year- round schooling has been proves by many people and by many different ways that it is just not a good idea, and yet people are still trying to make it happen. If they were to just look at the facts and look at research that has been done, they would realize that there is no advantage what-so-ever in going to school year-round.

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"Pro/on: Is year-round schooling an effective alternative to the traditional calendar?" //Silver Chips Online//. Web. 29 Sept. 2010. .