“YEAR ROUND EDUCATION”

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Term Paper Title	“YEAR ROUND EDUCATION”
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.32

               “YEAR ROUND EDUCATION”

     Year round education (YRE) is not what it sounds. It’s not coming to school for 12 months a year, everyday. Its having the mandatory 180 days  spread out over a period of 12 months instead of the well-known, widely excepted nine-month school year. I feel that there are a lot of pros and cons to year round education.  Having kids in school for twelve months sounds like a good idea, it would keep them in top academic condition and out of summer vacation trouble.  But YRE is really something that can hurt the kids.  I feel that YRE is a bad idea, a school year for students ages 6-18 should not be any length of time exceeding 9 months; any period of time longer than that causes students to lose interest, dislike learning, and have no time for summer jobs; 9 months of school and 3 months of summer vacation give students adequate time to let there newly learned knowledge sink in and allow time for much needed maturity; I also feel that YRE would cause teachers and the district more problems; both with money and convenience.
     Although students will have breaks in YRE, the 3 month span at the end of a nine month school year is what kids look forward to. Inconvenience also hits home, vacation time is an important activity and so are summer jobs.  Summer jobs allow growing students to realize what the world is about and not make graduating and finding a job so difficult. They teach kids how to balance money, time and scheduling. This privilege should not be revoked from anyone.
     Don Patterson, a member of Albuquerque school board thinks “The traditional summer vacation is like when an actor goes on hiatus between roles. It gives the individual time to recharge internal batteries. The short breaks never quite do that.” (Worsnop 439).  I also feel this way. If you can remember what it was like the week before schools out for the summer you will know what I’m talking about. Students get excited over the long break and just start to “give up.” I think that this would happen very often in YRE.  Kids would realize that they only have one week left until a three-week break and just quit. That can’t be good. Students would just begin to learn something and then a break would be in session. Consequently, short breaks do more harm then good” (Worsnop 439). ...

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