About four percent of all public schools are doing year round schooling. Some parents are trying to figure out whether to send their kids to year round schools or traditional schools. Although traditional schooling has many positive effects. Year round school is the better option.
One positive about year round schooling is that “schools have cited increased performance because students have less time to forget stuff after a long span of being away from school.” (Year Round Schooling) This happens because kids go to school for nine weeks and then get a three week break, which is the same amount of break time as a traditional school. Having the breaks after every nine weeks gets the kids a break. While having these breaks on year-round schooling, the kids “avoid leaving the building for months on end.” (Year Round Schooling) Whereas a traditional school would have shorter breaks in the school year and a long break in between years.
Another positive for having year round schooling is “school systems are capable of having ⅓ more students in the building.” (Emery) If
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One positive for traditional schooling is during the longer summer break “older students are capable of obtaining a full time summer job.” (Year Round Schooling) While traditional schooling may have a full summer for kids to work, some “year round schools have traditional school years for high schoolers” (Emery). So it is possible for high school students to get jobs during the summer. Another reason traditional schooling is good is that “traditional schooling lets more time to spend with family.” (Year Round Schooling) It may seem that people can spend more time with their family in traditional schooling but it is still the same amount of time off that can be spent with family in year round schools. After knowing some positives about traditional schooling year round schooling is definitely the better