School Year Might Go Year Round

[bluestarultor]

I dunno about anyone else, but having had both traditional and year-round schooling (admittedly in college), I wonder if these people have ever considered that kids tend to do a good deal of social growing and "being a kid" during a long summer vacation. Not to mention it's nice to have a real break after the stress of finals.

This strikes me as taking a lot of the fun out of childhood, but then schools as an institution seem to excel at that. It's all about the test scores and beating information into kids' heads to regurgitate. Personally, I think kids need to be given ample time to be kids instead of finding the next more efficient system for conditioning them to hate knowledge and end up working in a cubicle somewhere flinging pencils at the ceiling.

[Jagos]

I actually feel that I would have done far better in a year round school. You still get breaks and ~month long days off, but I was always a guy to go into a library during summer breaks in Atlanta and not necessarily socialize with a lot of kids in my neighborhood.

I think that it would be a lot better to keep them focused on their studies and the kids that do this will build up a small network of friends, same as in a regular school with the 3 month long break.

I still think that the 3 month break does more harm than good. What would you do if you were given a 3 month leave from your job and nothing to do in the interim?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Jagos

I actually feel that I would have done far better in a year round school. You still get breaks and ~month long days off, but I was always a guy to go into a library during summer breaks in Atlanta and not necessarily socialize with a lot of kids in my neighborhood.

I think that it would be a lot better to keep them focused on their studies and the kids that do this will build up a small network of friends, same as in a regular school with the 3 month long break.

I still think that the 3 month break does more harm than good. What would you do if you were given a 3 month leave from your job and nothing to do in the interim?

Travel? Visit family you don't get to see often? Disney? Pool? Video games? Job?

[ThatPoorMessenger]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Travel? Visit family you don't get to see often? Disney? Pool? Video games? Job?

What are these concepts?!