Year-Round Schooling

Article: http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/year-round-schooling/

Detailed Reaction:
To me, year-round schooling seems a tad bit annoying. I'd much rather enjoy my summer break at the beach than in a classroom. This breaks away from the traditional calender of school, and it seems a bit odd. Students are broken into "tracks", or groups, and they stay in school while others don't. While traditional school cycles follow a certain order and succession of breaks, year-round schooling's breaks are different for everyone and it is all over the place as well. I still think there are substantial benefits in this type of schooling though.

According to the article above, the academic achievements of regular students and year-round students can't even be differentiated. There are no big differences in their grades or standardized test scores when compared to one another. However, it does have benefits that concern other things. Year-round schooling has proven to save schools money when it comes to building new facilities to compensate for the abundant students in an overcrowded school. This is an advantage because the money that has now been saved can be used for the resources required to help students achieve academically.

Also, year-round schooling enables High-risk students and English-language learners to learn in a smaller-sized classroom. This allows teachers to actually be able to communicate with the students in need and pinpoint their weak points. From there, the teachers can teach and build up on the students' weaknesses. This type of betterment is not as evident in a normal-sized class. Year-round schooling should be in more overcrowded schools to save them from closing down because of failing grades and financial disadvantages.