1. By: Melissa Gaunnac & Casey Fowler
Year-Round Schooling
By:
Melissa Gaunnac
&
Casey Fowler

2. What is it? A year round education plan is an attempt to:
Improve student achievement
Increase building capacity
Reduce capital expenses
Accommodate special-needs students

3. Importance More days of each year is spent learning
Kids are actively engaged during breaks
With peers & with the community
Remediation is offered more often

4. Controversy Is this concept saving money? Are we burning out the kids?
What about administration burn-out?
Teacher lifestyle changes…

5. Positive Impact Retain information better
Shorter breaks, lose less information
Keep kids out of trouble, actively engaged
Lower delinquency rates
More travel options
Low income family assistance
Monetary assistance for the schools

6. Negative Impact Burn-out No long term breaks, poor for vacations
Over-lapping tracks for families
Teacher lifestyles vs. tracks
Loss of summer activites
Camp, Scouts, & the YMCA

7. Is year-round schooling glorified baby-sitting?

8. Who is benefiting, the student or the school?

9. Works Cited
Shields, Carolyn, et al. "Schools on a Balanced Calendar Make Better Use of Time." Year- Round Schools. Ed. Adriane Ruggiero. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, At Issue. Rpt. from "Making the Most of Time." Educational Leadership 63.8 (May 2006): Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 30 Nov Clark, Charles S. "Year-Round Schooling: A Wrinkle In Time." National Journal (2010). Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 30 Nov Mohajer, Kristine Hopkins, Cynthia Opheim, and Robert W. Read, Jr. "Evaluating year- round schools in Texas." Education (1995): Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 30 Nov