Students around the nation are currently anticipating the end of the school year and the start of summer vacation, while some education experts argue that a year-round education system would prevent children from falling behind in school. Here are some arguments from each side of this education debate:
The Arguments For Summer Vacation
- Three-month respite from paying for ADHD medications
- Kids who go to summer camp have opportunity to be tormented by entirely different group of bullies
- Algebra doesn’t sink in until the fifth time children learn it from scratch during school year
- Teenagers able to take on summer jobs that will pay for the cost of about two weeks of college
- Gives kids much-needed time to build entirely new persona for following school year
- The only reason anyone would be inclined to become a teacher
The Arguments For Year-Round Schooling
- The look on their faces when we break the news to them will be priceless
- Kids less likely to forget historical dates and state capitals that are so critical to their development and career prospects
- Students get more classroom time to waste on standardized tests
- Gives deeply held crushes ability to develop more fully before being cut short
- With additional months of school, the United States could skyrocket to 25th place in global math and science scores
- Keeps kids off the street and in the safety of an American classroom where no harm can ever come to them