The Pros And Cons Of Year-Round Schooling

Doing year round schooling students are still getting their typical 180 days of schooling, they are just broken up into different sections instead of just having the normal, and holiday, breaks. I don’t think that schools should switch to the Year round Schooling schedules because they are hard to transfer to for one, and for two they take away from the lives of students, teachers, and families. Some issues that come with the year round schooling is how it affects students lives outside of school, the students can end up at different paces in their schooling because of the different school start times, and all the inconveniences for the community’s along with the student’s. To start, year round schooling takes away from students time to do things other than school, like having a summer job, or even just a regular job in the case where their

“Teachers often share rooms at multi-track schools. They have to take their supplies – rolling carts, file cabinets, podiums, etc. – with them when leaving on their 15-day vacation,” says Luke Towler in his article “Districts Weigh Pros and Cons of Year-Round Schools.” The year round schools that go by the multitrack way of schooling, which is where students can start at different times of the year, and so the faculty has to pick up all their stuff at the end of the teaching session days for them. Most schools will do the 45-15, so they try to have one of the tracks on break as the other two are going, but a lot of times this means that the teachers have to share classrooms with other teachers, and the students und up at different paces of learning. With having the multitrack most schools have 3 teachers for each subject because they don’t want to have the teacher teaching at 3 different paces, but this causes districts to have to pay 2 more extra people to keep them on track. That also means 3x the supplies needed for