Year round education is a method of schooling that is being used more and more frequently. Some states use this method in almost every county, however it is not proving to show any higher results in tests. Some families are very inconvenienced because their children may be on different rotations resulting in the children's school breaks always occurring at different times.
Every year the school system is required to do testing to see how the children are progressing academically. This form of education was brought about to see if the children's academic reports would increase, it has yet to happen. " The effects of year-round schooling on academic achievement is that no such benefits can be expected," (Merino,B.J). "Children with learning problems fall further behind, and their learning problems are compounded when school districts rely on year-round calendar intersession to remediation,"(Newland, Chris). Year round education was developed to determine if a better-allocated school year could raise education levels. All it has accomplished is burning out the children, and creating resentment toward the school system.
"One administrator said, "My head was spinning. I never, ever, had a break. In fact, in the eight years I was in a year-round schedule, a week-and-a-half off was the most time I ever took. There was virtually no down-time. As one track leaves for a break, a new track comes in,"(Wildman, Louis). Teachers and faculty of the school systems that have adopted the year round education program are stressed as well. They feel as if they have no time to get comfortable enough for children to learn and with being up rooted all the time it is hard to accomplish that. Some teachers even work different hours from their own children's school schedule. That is one thing I think supporters of year-round education have forgotten, our teachers and faculty are moms and dads as well and if they are stressed with how much aggravati...