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While I do not believe the school year should be lengthened, there can be many benefits for offering summer classes and opportunities for children to explore courses of studies that
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There is a misconception that pupils require a certain number of hours in the day to satisfy their educational requirement. This is a very dangerous principle, and when applied to
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Whenever ideas of lengthening school days, the school week or the school year come up, the idea that children will suffer in such settings comes along. There is little concern for
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No, the school year should not be lengthened. Whilst this article title has most likely been posed in relation to the American school year, I believe the school year works out approximately
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by T. M. Beeker
What is the difference between quality and quantity? If one looks at education especially that provided by public schools the difference becomes obvious. In most urban and suburban
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One of the major talks of the news these days is of Obama's plans to lengthen the school year, because he claims that the children do not get enough of an education from the current
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by Ben Hughes
With the experience of working in a tough, low-achieving secondary school, my firm belief is that the school year shouldn't be lengthened at all because it would only help to alienate
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by Tom Calhoun
In graduate school one of the classes was called research and writing. In this class students were given subjects to research and then put together a research paper portraying the
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"Hurray, hurray, for school is out!" we hear the happy children shout! But in the fall the most of them are eager pupils after all, for they have had vacation time to work and play
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The problem with the state governors, and government officials wanting to lengthen the school year, is that they do not see what is really going on within the school year itself. Teachers,
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From 1997 to 2001, I spent seven hours per day in everyone's favorite leisure time thief, high school. Don't misunderstand; I loved high school. I loved the learning part best, spending
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by Everi Yue
With so many of articles on this topic coming from an educator's view, I'm writing on behalf of students strongly opposing lengthening the school year.
First of all, define lengthening.
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In ancient civilizations, schools were perhaps not just year-round but maybe decade-round, or a score-of-years-round, or even quarter-century-round. In ancient Sparta, boys left home
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by Lisa Barry
The school year should NOT be lengthened. Despite the fact that the United States is lagging behind other developed countries in most academic areas, the reason is not because we offer
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When I went to school in Italy, my Country, the school year started about September 20th and ended in the period May 31st-June 10th, with some days of feasts between Christmas and
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A thousand times "NO!" to the idea of lengthening the school year. A student does not need more "time" in school to achieve higher grades-indeed, he/she desperately needs a full summer
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Bad Idea.
Thirty years ago our school district tried year long terms. The 12-month schedule created some benefits, but the flaws were serious and quickly killed everyone's enthusiasm
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by Nikki Fitz
Summer was always the best part of the year while I was growing up. Two and a half whole months with no school, no stress, and plenty of fun. As an adult, I work in the public school
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by Lisa Hopp
It is time we take an honest look at our educational system. Though we are a great country, we are often an arrogant country. We are no longer the wealthiest country in the world,
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Last fall, my sister and her life partner took a trip to Germany to visit some relatives. Among many of the things I learned upon their return from this country was that children attend
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by Betty Blake
It is time we face reality in respect of the educational system. The ball has been dropped; and as a result, this generation of school children are paying dearly for it.
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Yes, school should be year-round. The benefits are the consistent attention of students to learning, an awareness of education as a full-time job (just like Mom and Dad), a reduction
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The time children spend in the classroom should be spread across the entire calendar year, not just nine months. We do not need to expand the number of days kids spend in the classroom;
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by Martin Shung
I believe firmly, that the school year should be lengthened. Through some research, I've found that 70% of the schools in the United States is at a failing status. In letter grade,
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The school year should be lengthened, but not so much in the respect of added days as in taking away the extra time that is being used for unnecessary pull-outs (assemblies, days
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by C. R. Kwiat
The days where the kid is needed on the farm to help their parents during the summer is over, so why do we still have the huge break? I’m a teacher going on her twelve or thirteenth
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by Ken Reetz
Should the school year be lengthened? Yes, our children would greatly benefit from a longer school year, perhaps more so with year round schools. Restructure the school day with fewer
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by Missy Bell
I love summer vacation. It has come to be my favorite time of the year.
As a high school teacher, by the time Memorial Day rolls around I am burned out completely. My plans are wrapping
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Yes I truly believe it should be.
I have a friend up in Manchester who works in a school and I know how many holidays she has, even though she is not a teacher, but as part of the school,
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What a hot topic! One that will be discussed over and over. Of course the school year should be lengthened. Our kids deserve to have the opportunity to learn all year around within
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Learning is a ongoing process, and it never stops. Part of the transition into adulthood that is so difficult is that we are conditioned to have our brains turned on for 3/4 of the
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by Todd Pheifer
In western society we have an education system that is structured on historical methodology. In others words, our school year, with the summers off, is based upon an agricultural model
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by Jill Wimmer
The concept of summer vacation is one of controversy among educators, parents, and children. To the older population, the importance of education represented privilege more than necessity.
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by John Graham
In Denver, Colorado, some schools work on the basis of 12-monthh schooling while others stick to the three-term system based on releasing them for a 3-month summer vacation. We have
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by maddie rose
Should the school year be lengthened?
Yes. I would like to see the school year of all schools across the nation, go full year. We have moved around often, our children have experienced
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Understanding the learning process and how the education system currently works makes it so that it is known that the school year should indeed be lengthened. Learning isn't an easy
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School, a binding experience that most have shared from the moments its doors opened long ago when this country was ruled by another. It is all part of a growing experience that is
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by Holle Abee
I'm a retired teacher, and our school has contemplated employing year round school for several years. When I first heard about it, I cringed at the thought of losing my lazy Summers,
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by Pamela Kay
The debate of should the school year be lengthened, has caused many misconceptions of what this would entail. Lengthening the school year does not have to mean our children will go
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It's true, children are getting sloppier. As a thirteen year-old myself, I can see the consequences of many people not getting a good enough education. Students of the twenty-first
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