Problems With Summer Vacation Is a three month summer vacation causing students to lose the knowledge they retained throughout the school year? The huffington post states that the typical student loses two months of knowledge in math over the summer. So why are we still having a three month break in the summer if we know it is harming students ability to learn? To find why we still do this even though studies show that students lose knowledge during summer vacation we need to look at why it started, the benefits of summer vacation, and the negatives of it. Is year round schooling the answer to this problem? First to try to fix this problem we must first look at why it became a problem in the first place. Many people believe that …show more content…
According to Rebecca Klein of the Huffington Post “ 66 percent teachers have to spend three to four weeks re-teaching students course material at the beginning of the year, while 24 percent of teachers spend at least five to six weeks re-teaching material from the previous school year.” This means that every year teachers could teach three to six more weeks of new information if that time wasn’t spent re-teaching old material. If there was no long summer break this re-teaching may not need to be done since the knowledge would not have been lost in the first …show more content…
There are also many different approaches of year round schooling. One popular approach is a multi-rack schedule. Shaun P. Johnson and Terry E. Spradlin in their scholarly journal “Alternatives to the Traditional School-Year Calendar” state: The multi-track school calendar is utilized precisely to alleviate overcrowding in districts with constrained school facilities. In some cases, multi-track programs are implemented as a less costly alternative to constructing new school buildings or temporary structures as a result of increasing enrollments. To alleviate overcrowding, students and teachers are grouped into a number of tracks and assigned their own school schedule. Moreover, according to the NAYRE, each track attends school at different times, thus creating the “school-withina-school” concept. (page