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Persuasive Essay On Year Round School

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Blaine Schmuck
3rd hour English 9B
Mr. Ioannidis
6 June 2023
Year Round School Do you ever wish you had more breaks during the school year? Students and parents would both agree having longer and more recurring breaks throughout the school year is better. Then a balanced calendar is the best option. Balanced calendar is an alternate option for schools, but many people disagree with it because they don't know what it is. It gives more vacation time depending on what the school decides to do.
The balanced calendar is a calendar that requires a school to complete the following. “They need to meet 180 days of school with 1098” (Balanced Calendar 1) . “They also need to follow the ISD common Professional Development days and all ISD-wide calendar …show more content…

This is true but you have more breaks and it is not the same every year because the “schools may select and customize multiple breaks throughout the school year” (Balanced Calendar 2.) which allows the school to change the calendar to help line up with the needs of the staff and students. It also allows for the students to get breaks more often and it doesn’t stress them out as much because they aren’t in school as often. This also helps the teachers because they can have a break where they can catch up on grading papers and doing lesson plans and any other prep that they …show more content…

so some people have a problem fitting family activities around the normal school year. For schools with a balanced calendar this is not that difficult because they have longer breaks, and stretches out the days of the school year. The schools with a balanced calendar have found that the students and staff tend to have less burnouts, greater attendance, and more motivation (Chamberlain 2).
Many people disagree with a balanced calendar because they think that it is year round, but this is a big misconception. They all think that a balanced calendar is bad because they have not learned what a balanced calendar is. Balanced calendar spreads out the school year longer with more breaks, it has shown to benefit both students and teachers throughout the year. All in all the balanced calendar is one of the better calendars that a school can go with. It gives shorter breaks more often preventing stress levels to get too high in students and teachers and prevents burnouts. It can also help families have more time to vacation in the winter months and the fall months also. It also allows teachers to get more breaks and helps them control how much time they have to grade and not stress about it as much. All schools should consider switching to a balanced

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