Year-Round Schooling

Education is defined as “the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge and of developing the powers of reasoning and judgement” (The Random House…). There are many different ways to get education. Homeschooling, online schooling, and traditional schooling are examples. One of the more recently popular ways is year-round schooling. Year-round schooling is a series of shorter breaks throughout the school year rather than a single summer break. Year-round schooling should not be used because for the costs for the school and family will rise, family schedules and extracurricular activities will be thrown off, and test scores and grades have not improved. The first reason year-round schooling should not be used is because
Some costs for traditional schooling are electric bills, transportation bills, building upgrades, and salaries. Year-round schooling encounters the same type of costs but with a variation on how much the price is. Year-round schooling requires maintenance to be done on the weekends because of the shorter summer break resulting in overtime pay. Extra staff and transportation may be needed which therefore makes the price skyrocket. There is also an increase in administrative costs for new creating the schedules. Operation costs increase because of the higher use of air conditioning during the summer. Building upgrades may be needed if a school is switching from a traditional schooling schedule to a year- round schooling schedule, such as more classroom space. This will prevent overpopulation. The cost for year-round schooling just keeps increasing
Siblings attending the same traditional school have the same break; therefore, family schedules will be the same to plan vacations and other excursions. Year-round schools can disrupt families when their children attend different schools. If one child attends a traditional school while the other attends a year-round school, the children may not have the same breaks together. This would occur if one child is in an elementary school that operates on a traditional schedule while the other child is in a high school that operates on a year-round schedule. Parents are put in an awkward situation where one child is on vacation while the other attends school. Another family situation is a teacher in a year-round school who is a parent to a child who attends a traditional school. The parent may find it difficult to spend time with their child during summer vacations because of their different breaks (The Disadvantages…). “Because of these potentially negative effects on the family life of students and teachers, the year-round school system was discontinued by some schools, including the Seminole County, Florida school district” (The