Year-Round Schooling.

• Cannibal wrote on 2010-11-01 16:41
  How do you feel about it? Would you prefer a year-round school over a normal school?
  In my town, there are a few year-round schools. Basically, the students go to school for 9 weeks, and then have 2-3 weeks off. Students don't, however, get extended holiday breaks, spring break or summer vacation.
  
  I personally wouldn't mind attending a year-round school, since the more frequent breaks sound a lot more appealing to me than the holiday and seasonal breaks.
• starpaw7 wrote on 2010-11-01 16:46
  The holiday breaks are at the most 2 weeks; so this wouldn't sound so bad :what:
  
  
  
  Though that wouldn't leave much of summer to have compared to what we're used to
• Kavach wrote on 2010-11-01 16:51
  Makes it easier for the system to pop out successful workers. Short breaks make for less info loss. If you enjoy being part of the system and not enjoying life at the best time then sure.
• Taycat wrote on 2010-11-01 17:25
  Yeah but then you'd have to go to school on Christmas (if done by 3 week breaks)
• Cannibal wrote on 2010-11-01 17:29
  No, you wouldn't.
• Tatsu wrote on 2010-11-01 17:33
  ...Nah.
  
  My grades suck on second semesters because of Winter Break.
• pkMaster wrote on 2010-11-01 19:01
  Before I can consider choosing between tradition and year-round schooling, I think they should first fix the education system. I mean, look at how much extra useless crap I have to learn IN COLLEGE just to get my undergrad degree. It's complete BS. I mean half the stuff I learned in high school was 10 times more difficult than the stuff I'm learning now in college. And a lot of this classes don't even have any effect on my major (Comp. Science). I mean look at all these classes that are compulsory to completing my undergrad:
  

  
  
  • English 1&2 (more of this?)
    
  • World History
    
  • Political Science (ok, I kinda like this class, but it's still a useless class)
    
  • Science (one of the following): Physics/Chemistry/Biology (Thank good I did my Physics AP exam in high school)
    
  • College Algebra (which is apparently harder than Calculus BC AP, Differentials and Stocastics since I still have to do this >_>)
    
  • General ED Cluster Class (Why is this even a requirement!?)
    
  • How to see a Play (LOLWUT?)
    
  • Leisure (how is this even a class?)
    
  • Rock Appreciation (I don't even...)
    

  
  
  And if I absolutely don't want to waste my time sitting in the class learning this garbage, then I have to take some kind of test (if one is available) which is usually harder than the finals given by most teachers and it counts it toward the maximum number of classes allowed to be taken for that quarter (Ya my college runs on a quarter system). So that means I have to waist most of my time either doing nothing if I take all those tests (which is what I end up doing most of the time) or just take the stupid class and bear with it.
  
  But the thing that makes me angry is that I SHOULD have gotten my computer science degree by now, but instead I'm being forced to take these extra courses that have absolutely nothing to do with my major. And from what I've heard, this is a major problem with a lot of colleges, not just mine.
  
  BLOODY MURDER!
  :mad:
• Shirayuki wrote on 2010-11-01 19:03
  I'd probably rush credits and get into college ASAP if year-round school was the standard. I just feel like having one huge break to do everything you want is better than short bursts of no school.
• Ailyene wrote on 2010-11-02 02:34
  I absolutely hate the idea of year-round school. That would be year round [s]torture[/s]. I'd much rather work hard for a set period of time and then have a long period to relax than having to keep it up the entire year. Plus, my grades never go down because of breaks but seriously, it shouldn't be like this anyway (if anyone has this problem, just study during the break...).
  
  Also, it would be difficult at times for families to go on long vacations because you'd be missing out on material then and you would have to catch up. Plus summer is a great time to go hang out with friends. I'd rather not be stuck for two-three weeks in a miserable little classroom when the sun is shining brightly outside.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-11-02 02:42
  the cat doesnt see how there's a lack of vacation
• Chillax wrote on 2010-11-02 02:48
  Being in a year-round school makes interning and hardcore volunteering much harder, since you don't have a large block of time in which to do that, which hurts college applications. The only flipside to year-round schools is possibly more preparation for hard colleges, since all the material is being pounded into the students' heads over a long period of time instead of being crammed in a shorter time period.
• Iyasenu wrote on 2010-11-02 02:50
  Rock Appreciation?
  What could that be about?
  
  But, year-round school just doesn't sit well with me.
  But I'm used to how it's always been.
  
  I remember having a hard enough time adjusting to just the time the school day started when leaving Junior High to High School. :p
  
  I don't wanna think what it would have been like going from regular to year-round schooling.
  
  It'd change my perception of summer, at least. :p
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-11-02 02:53
  Rock appreciation is probably a class set for geologists, paleontologists or archeologists.
  or a worthless class
  
  The cat thinks it's worthless since mostly everything has been discovered already and nothing really new came up in the last 20-50 years
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-11-02 04:26
  I like long break periods. It makes me feel like I have more time to relax. Year-round may be more often, but at this point in my life two weeks doesn't feel like a lot with the amount of work I've been doing. I feel like by the time I decided to do something during my break it would already be over. XD
• Totoro wrote on 2010-11-02 05:32
  [FONT="Century Gothic"][SIZE="2"]Ehhh I see the advantages of year-round schooling, but I personally prefer long breaks :)
  
  And I think college has all these extra classes so that people can take them for fun and find out what they like to do D: Lots of people still don't know what to major in and stuff.[/SIZE][/FONT]