Year Round Schools

A main concern for the American youth is the kind of education they are receiving. Over the past 40 years, the debate over reformatting the school year has been constantly discussed. Many schools have switched to year round schooling systems in the hope that students would retain more information over the shorter breaks. However, it seems that neither traditional nor year round school is truly an effective form of education. Though there are benefits and drawbacks to both year round school and traditional schools, some alternate plans could potentially educate students much more efficiently. 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.Knowledge is one of the most important things in our lives. It helps us in our daily lives to make choices and decisions, and also, it can help us in the long run; in our future jobs and such. It is very clear that we gain most of our knowledge in our school years, but the majority of students in America are not very open to the idea of school....