Looking forward To My Summer Vacation I am really excited for summer to start. Even though it’s a short summer I plan on staying busy by wrestling, working out, and go to North Dakota Fargo. It going to be a busy summer and I can’t wait. This summer I will be very busy. I have lots to do it is going to be a short summer. I plan on wrestling, summer school, and training. The first thing I am looking forward is wrestling and lots of it. I need to start to be
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four-week vacations.” “The idea of year-round school began to gain momentum in the 1970s” but only recently became a major topic of discussion by “educators, parents and social scientists.” “The National Association for Year-Round Education states that the number of students in year-round schools has tripled in the last ten years. By 2001, there were about 3,000 year-round schools” (Peters). However, this alteration does not come without inconveniences such as less opportunities for summer activities
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Its also harder for schools to run a year round schedule. Lastly, families need a vacation. Year-round school is an issue and is ruining our American tradition of a summer break. The first reason for kids to have a Summer break is because many kids feel they need a long break to recover from the academic and social pressures of school. According to the authors of “School Summer Break- Good or Bad?” summer breaks need to stay instead of changing to the new-year-round schedule. Some kids say
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Are Year-round School Schedules Better Than Having a Long Summer? Have you ever wondered what year-round education schedules do for students? Year-round schooling is not better for students than a long summer vacation. Parents may have schedules that don’t work with the year-round schedule, the schedule may get in the way of traditional vacations, and there is not much evidence supporting better grades in year-round schools. Student’s parents may have long work schedules that don’t work with frequent
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encounters on summer vacation and the author of this cartoon is Bob Englehart. He is speaking for the younger generation, he is trying to let the older generation know that there is never enough vacation for children and school is also overwhelming them. It shows that by the way the teacher is making them forget about vacation, just like vacation goes by quickly, they forget about it. More like the younger generation want a real break from school. Although, it is true, vacations go by so quickly
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be a part of. The image of year-round schooling is that students must go to school every day throughout the entire year with no breaks. This is a false image. Students are given frequent breaks throughout the school year to make up for the short summer break. It was first used in the 1800s, which goes against many people’s thoughts that it is a new alternative schooling proposal (Research). At that time, year-round schooling was used in industrial cities to teach English to children of immigrants
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People might think year-round schooling is bad,but there is a lot to it! Year-round schooling is better for students than a long summer vacation. This can help relieve stress, you forget information, and you have a greater chance of having a vacation. Having breaks more often can help relieve stress. “The frequent breaks offered by year-round schooling give kids more opportunities to relax and let some of that stress slide away.”(TenneySchool.com,6) Having a non-stop school can be stressful, but
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Did you know summer vacation began 120 years ago? Summer vacation has been around for a long time, we would not want to ruin this tradition with year round school, would we? Year-round school is only operated on 4% of public schools. Kids deserve to have a big break to rest and have fun! During the summer kids can get jobs to have money to spend, kids can play with friends and make new friends outside of school, but with year-round school they will have to be around with the same kids all the time
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students would even benefit from year-round school years. There are more reasons to value summer vacation. In either system, no summer or summer, students receive a break. The question is, which break should be put into effect? You better hope that America chooses the latter. Counterarguments: 1.)Students will lose months of educational learning.
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believe that summer vacation has been a part of the school system calendar since school began, this is not actually the case. During the 19th century, some school calendars went all year, there was no long summer break. It was not until the mid-19th century, when this began to change due to people flocking to the cities. The rich began to go to the country side due to the cities overwhelming heat and classes were left half empty because attendance, at the time, was not mandatory. The summer break was
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What would be better, year-round schooling or a longer summer break? Many schools contemplate whether all schools should go to year-round schooling instead to keep kids' minds fresh and ready to learn, rather than having a long summer break, which kids would probably like more, and forget all that they have learned the previous year. While having a longer summer break would make lots of kid’s happier, year-round schooling is the better option to keep kid’s minds fresh for the upcoming school year
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Ever think about how the school years would be different if there was year round school. Think about if we would have more vacations, no summer camps, and more learning. Wonder about how bad it would be with more school days and learning. Now here are some examples of why Year round could be a good thing. At the end of the traditional calendar kids like the fact that summer is here and they can go out and spend time with friends, but imagine how that would feel every two weeks ´really´ wouldn't
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Should We Have Year-Round Schooling? Summer is too long for me. In fact, people can do many things in one month, so two and a half months is absurd. People can have a lot of fun in the summer, but get burned out in the winter. This brings up the topic of year-round schooling. Many people may dislike the concept of year-round schooling, but Amanda Morin shows a misconception about year-round schooling. "While the year-round schedule is not what most adults remember from their own school experience
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If you get bored during the summer you might like year round school. However I don’t think year round school would be any fun. First off my parents work in the army and like many other jobs the army gives you only a few days to take off work. Therefore they would not be able to watch my siblings or myself. Secondly in summer it is warm and you can do so many things, but in the winter it is freezing. I would much rather prefer one long break when it’s warm than a bunch of smaller breaks year round
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isn’t based on farming during the summer, the September to June calendar isn’t needed anymore. The Blue Springs School District should adopt a year round school because it boosts education, you get more vacation time, and it saves money. Students in most year-round school districts spend the same amount of days in class as students in traditional calendar schools; the days are just arranged differently, with smaller, more frequent breaks throughout the year. The summer break is perhaps only a month
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persuade the reader that E-learning days are good alternatives to snow days. First this essay will persuade the reader that E-learning days can save vacation days. With the E-learning days students do work on the snow days so that it will not be counted as a snow day. That would mean we would not have to make it up and shorten a scheduled vacation. One school in West Virginia in 2014 missed eleven days but because of E-learning days they were able to only have to make up one school day.Other schools
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[1] The first summer school was introduced in 1865 at the First Church of Boston, MA.[1] In 1916 there would be 200 elementary schools offering summer school.[1] In 1971, a survey showed that 84% of the surveyed
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Should you give up Summer Vacation? From my view, we should give up summer vacation and move onto year round schools.. THe United States only have 4% of public students going to a year round school. This has to change. In Illinois there are only 59 year round schools. If we increase the amount of schools that support year round school there will be a big change in society. To start it of the primary reason to use school uniforms is for the fact that you can reduce stress. When students have
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and seasons, with the long, two month summer break every student awaits. But what if the regular nine to ten months of school turned to twelve, lasting the entire year? What if there weren’t long breaks, but shorter ones, consisting of two weeks per month? Around 4.4% of schools around the world have already transferred to having a school year-round, insisting others should do the same. Schools that last the whole year believe they are preventing the summer learning loss, which occurs when students
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Summer vacation is a time for students and teachers alike to relax and recharge from the stress and exhaustion caused by school. Some say schools should be open year-round to decrease the summer slide and help less fortunate families, but they ignore one crucial thing: students' and teachers' mental and emotional state. Schools should maintain summer breaks because of the toll school has on students' and teachers' health, the development of soft skills from summer jobs, and the median results from
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better for students than a long summer vacation. Year-round schooling would be better for students because the school will provide a more structured environment, students can avoid gaps in learning with shorter breaks, and students will get the same amount of days off but they will be separated. Schools would provide a more structured environment if students had year-round education. “The safety and dependability that school offers doesn't stop with the onset of summer,”(McGuire, 4). Students wouldn’t
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perfectly populated school through the multiple-track year round education system. This system features students attending school while another set of students is on vacation. For example, a school on a four-track system could hold 400 kids instead of 300 because they now are able to have 300 kids in school while there is 100 on vacation. The multi-track year round system has the potential to increase available space for enrollment by 20%-50% depending on how many tracks it wants to include, this would
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By eliminating long breaks from school can improve a student’s academic achievement (DeMucha). Summer is where most of the students’ knowledge is lost. Long summers are known to cause “summer slide” (DeMucha). Summer Slide is a decline of academic skills that have been lost over the summer. With a year round schooling schedule students and teachers will still have a summer break, but it will be less than two months. Overall, year round schooling would benefit all students than the
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love to vacation there throughout the year. The mountains of Maine are truly beautiful, especially when covered in sparkling, white blankets of snow. Although seasons filled with sunshine and warmth may come to the mountains, this is not what mind conjures up when I think of the high hills and rocky terrain. My first thoughts are of the cold temperatures, ice and snow. Throughout the year, many choose the mountains of Maine for their vacation get a ways. The seasons of spring and summer are perfect
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breaks. Year-round education is better than a long summer vacation. Having shorter breaks means that students won’t lose information. By having shorter breaks, they can go on more vacations. By having shorter breaks, they don't need to review work and just get straight to learning new things. Kids can experience new places around the world by having shorter breaks.”Year round schooling allows families to plan vacations at times other than summer”Readworks,6. Children can experience the seasons more
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To start, one reason why year-round schooling should be implemented into schools across the country is that year-round schooling can help prevent summer learning loss. The shorter but more plentiful breaks integrated into a year-round school schedule make these benefits possible. Without the long summer break, students are able to retain knowledge from the past school year, and this in turn, leads to more time for teachers to cover new material rather than reteaching lessons
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has garnered both praise and criticism. Advocates argue that it minimizes the dreaded "summer learning loss" while providing more opportunities for enrichment and remediation. Additionally, the shorter breaks can alleviate the stress and burnout often associated with traditional long summer vacations. However, detractors raised concerns about the potential strain on family schedules, disruption of traditional summer activities, and the feasibility of implementing such a system across diverse communities
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For community service, I have helped out with Sunday School and Vacation Bible at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hicksville, New York. I not only help out with my church, but I have helped out with Big/Little Sisters at my school. Also I helped out with three library events that helped our community this past summer. I am involved at my church in helping with Sunday School at Trinity Lutheran in Hicksville, since I was in sixth grade. There I do many things for an hour. I help children learn the bible
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how underprivileged children are affected. There are many children that are unprivileged that are going to schools that may not be the best school or a top rated school. However, at least when they are attending school they are learning. During the summer though, their home life may be even worse then what they are experiencing at school, which is going to cause a greater loss of knowledge. This happens because parents aren’t helping enforce what the child may have been taught or learned in school
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The First Koehler-Stauder Ozark Vacation (1951) In 1951, Orval and Mary, with their children, Jerry and Mike, take a vacation with their brother-in-law and daughter, Ralph and Gwen Stauder. For one week, they share a cabin in a resort area called Arcadia. The two families spend a week in a screened in cabin. This is the first of many summer vacations that will be spent in the Ozarks by the two families. Orval is 43-years-old and Mary is 44. Part of the fun for Orval is spending the year sending
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