Con+Elementary+Year-Round+Schools

=** CON ELEMENTARY YEAR-ROUND EDUCATION **=

The year-round calendar and the traditional calendar have students attending the same amount of school days but it is arranged so that there is no three month break over the summer. There are many advantages and disadvantages to year-round schooling, it is not a proven fact that it is successful or unsuccessful.

Multi-tracking is when students at different schools will have different school calendars, meaning different vacation times and breaks. For example, a and sister that attend different schools could have different schedules making it very hard to plan things from vacation to needing a babysitter. If one child is on a year-round schedule and the other is on a traditional schedule, they will have different breaks and it will be very difficult for the parents to have family vacations and things of that nature.



Students who attend year-round schooling miss out on opportunities for summer jobs, internships, etc. Also teachers who teach at a year-round school would not be able to have summer employment if they wished. More breaks can be just as big of an issue, if not more, than one long summer break. Scheduling for things like extracurricular activities, family vacations, daycare/babysitter, etc. becomes a real issue with year-round schooling. (K12 Academics)

Some people who are pro year-round schooling say that because of the long summer break, students forget what they learned and the teachers have to spent a large amount of time "re-teaching" the material. While I agree with this, I can also say that if the student were attending a year-round school and only had a one month break instead of a three month break, they would still forget a lot of the material learned.

As a teacher is would be extremely difficult when it came time to preparing material for the school year. For example, if a teacher was teaching a new subject the next school year, that teacher would only have a few days to prepare, where is they were on a traditional schedule they would have three months to prepare for the new school year.

Another drawback from year-round schooling is that it can be expensive. On the parents end for more supplies, lunches, etc. Also on the schools end, due to maintenance. They will need to pay for heat during the winter and air conditioning in the summer. Also transportation, buses for the children. (Pederson, 1997)

K12 Academics. Retrieved from http://www.k12academics.com/education-policy/year-round-school/disadvantages

Pederson, L. (1997, Dec., 16). Year Round Schooling: Good or Bad. Retrieved from http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/final.paper.pub/_pwfsfp/00000116.htm