Year Around School

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Year around School

I read “U.S. Kids Need More School Time” by Ellen Goodman and “ The School Year Needs to Be Better; Not Longer” by Colman McCarthy. I have these thoughts and observations about having a year round school year. For millions of kids that are now left to spend their summers in an empty home while parents work, maybe there is a better alternative. There are lots of differences today in our life styles compared to twenty years ago. I have realized in reading about this issue, that there are very good reasons, both for and against, whether there should be school all year. Kids today are also dealing with problems with not having enough money to do summer activities to keep themselves busy. It is a stated fact that lots of other countries send their kids to school for more time each year than the United States. In one person's opinion, we need to improve the school year we have now and make it better, rather than make it longer in hopes of making it better. If the school year is made longer, there will be a need for a lot more funding for the teachers and administrators’ salaries as well as the expense of operating our schools year round. Most of the current schools would have to add air conditioning to their buildings. With seventy percent of federal research and development funds allocated, only two percent goes to the cost of education. There are already concerns from students asking questions such as why is there not more money for more teachers. One author thinks that the issue is with money rather than the time at school and aren't the summers used to rest and to get a fresh start for beginning the next school years?

After all the reading and consideration of all opinions, this is my decision on the matter. I think that there are two different aspects that need to be looked at when considering going to school year round. There are many parents, teachers, and students who think that going ...