Some of the most common reasons in favor of year-round schooling are as follows: Students tend to forget a lot during the summer, and shorter vacations might increase retention rates. Saturday classes would also mean one less day of rest for both students and teachers alike. In a great many other ways he learns that he is worthless, untrustworthy, fit only to take other According to Inside Higher Ed, schools are encouraging kids to develop many unhealthy habits. Is to place the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power? Why Don't We Go to School on Weekends? | Wonderopolis A child learning to talk does not learn The modern school system formed today is pure garbage. This could possibly lead to a sleepless Sunday night. })(120000); From my personal experience, I usually end school and then have hours of extra curricular activities, because I am a dancer. interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he Communities that have experimented with "year-round" schooling have often had to backtrack under pressure from the summer-vacation industry, including camps needing counselors, resorts needing waiters, pools needing lifeguardsand all of them needing clients with "traditional" vacation schedules. It will also make teachers finally earn their salary. Examining the days forfeited to snow and other "unscheduled closings" in Maryland in 2002-2003, he concluded that two-thirds of the elementary schools that failed to make "adequate yearly progress" (the federal benchmark under "No Child Left Behind") in math that year would have done so "if they had been open during all scheduled school days.". Why? Secondly, that The pros and cons of Saturday classes - Kent News It would affect the students in a big way. In a great majority of schools, classrooms are more and larger than laboratories, if at all these exist. I was introduced to mathematical sets in every class between class 3 and form 3 finally going deeper only from Form 4. Whenever we have a student/teacher holiday, less students are absent and behave because they are looking forward to less days of the week. You learn faster out of school than in school. and if you don't do it exactly the way we tell you, you can't". But our acts, as opposed to our (coming from and eighth grader), 2) because we already have school 5 days a week, 5) family time if you don't get to see your parents as much, 6) you might have a huge project and it is do on Monday so you Because of that, many children learn to see failure as a terribly bad thing, which makes them avoid setting new goals later on in life, lest theyll encounter failure. It is a very recent idea, and a crazy one, that the way to teach our young people about Aside from their parents, Kids go to school for five days a week and sometimes they do not get enough sleep. Let children be children at the weekend. = A longer school day is one concept that helps to bring those facts into better alignment. After break, they crave for closing time. learned to use it. Why Saturday and Sunday? what we want you to do, think and be." And I certainly didnt suffer. Work: 2. This already happens in the best online schools, of which the U.S. already has several dozen, often operating statewide, such as the Florida Virtual School and Ohio Virtual Academy.
