Persuasive Essay On Year Round School

Year Round School By: Bryan Madden

It has recently come to my attention that people want to know if the school schedule should be year round. Imagine your child having a two week break and forgetting all of the information that learned the week before. Picture your kid getting the same work every six weeks. Visualize you not being able to find a babysitter every two weeks. This could happen if the school schedule is year round. I believe the school year should not be on a year round schedule since breaks every two weeks can be disruptive, giving kids the same work every six weeks does not make them learn, and parents can not find babysitters every six weeks.

First, breaks every six weeks can be disruptive to the workflow. I mean, getting a break every six weeks can feel exhausting for students as going to school for six weeks then getting a break just to go back for another six weeks. In the text “The Pros and Cons of Year-Round Schools” it states, “... it was really hard to get involved in the work because as soon as you get geared up, you had to gear back down”. You may think that kids getting a two week break can give them time to relax from school, ;however kids would not

Let me explain. If students got a two week break every six weeks they would have to relearn the material they learned two weeks before redoing the same work. In the passage “ Districts That School Year-Round” it reads, “Simply giving our children more of the same instruction, [work] or at different times of the year, has not been the answer to educational woes,”. Some people feel that kids will remember most or all of the material from the two weeks before. However, some or most kids will probably not remember all of the instructions they learned from the last two weeks so teachers will have to assign similar work. Obviously, kids would not have to redo the same work if they did not have a break every two