| Do the schools in your area go to school all year round. |
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Asked 2 years ago
by Lin  United States |
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I am Catholic, Liberal, and a Grandmother of two. I am also very opinionated.
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My county doesn't, but the county South of us does. The teachers union fought it tooth and nail as did black parents.
Most parents now love it. The kids mostly don't. It took a year or so for the schools to adjust. Now, the teachers like the results, though it plays havoc with continuing education.
I don't see any point to it. I imagine poor working parents might like it because they wouldn't have to pay for as much daycare.
I think daycare problems could easily be resolved if only one parent worked. Parents are too greedy nowadays and the kids are the ones who suffer.
I was for it because it was a much better use of time than the system that was set up for when kids were farm help. The existing system was set up so that kids would be on the farm when needed and could go to school in their "Spare" time. About 3% of our school population now lives on family farms. Getting up, getting breakfast and getting to the bus stop while it's still dark out seems at least counterproductive and in some places, unsafe.
Teachers around here complain that they have to spend at least a month getting students back up to speed after summer recess. Year round school solves that.
Year round schools allow year round use of facilities.
The system in Kentucky calls for trimesters. This allows advanced students to progress at a faster rate.
I'm sure that there are more reasons, but I can't think of them right now. Those are the arguments that made sense to me at the time.
Perhaps it may be greed with people you know, but for those I know it is a case of necessity for both parents to work.
People on or near minimum wage really struggle to earn enough to have any kind of decent lifestyle, and with only one wage earner they struggle just to provide the basics.
Lets not be too quick to judge, personally I respect people who go out to work when they could be nearly as well off claiming social security benefits.
I know there is the "can't feed 'em? don't breed 'em" idea as well, and I generally have sympathy with that, howevr there are a lot of kids out there who would be much worse off except for two hard working parents.
The same problems exist in the UK?
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I don't think parents are greedy. They just want more for their kids than they had. When I was growing up we never went on a real vacation. We didn't mind because none of our friends went on vacation either. People just didn't do that in Chicago where I lived. I took my daughter on vacation everywhere. We usually went with our friends and their kids. Great fun. But my point is parents work because they have to.
When I was a kid mom stayed home with the kids and dad worked. We took a vacation every summer. I didn't feel a bit deprived. Back then not as many parents had college degrees, but dad did. Maybe I was just lucky?
Our schools are pretty much fixed buildings, so they don't go anywhere, the kids go to school :)
And currently they get 6 or 7 weeks of summer break, plus 2 week breaks at xmas and Easter, and 3 1 week breaks in mid term.
When is your summer break? January and February? Just curious.
BTW/ Our standard schedules are similar, except that our summer break is 11-12 weeks and we don't have the mid-term breaks. We have 166 school days per year in this state.
That's a bit cruel, I know we had a rubbish summer this year, but we still stick with the original names of the seasons, the summer break is late July to early September.
see http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/termdates#autumn09
Sorry, I thought you were Australian.
Struth Bruce!, thought the pommie flag was a bit of a fair dinkum giveaway, sure as 'roos can jump!
Shudda been. (hangs head in shame)
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Our summer break is mid June to the last week of August. Depending on when labor day falls will determine when they go back to school. They go 182 days here. If the would cut just two weeks off summer and put it in the winter that would be good. Problem, a lot of the schools here are not air conditioned. Hate to send the kids to school when the temp is 90 degrees outside. Very hot and not productive.
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[3 points] 2 years ago byOur summer break is mid-May to mid-August. It's normally 85-95 degrees during August and doesn't start to cool off until late September. The vast majority of schools South of I-70 are air conditioned. Above that, mostly just the newer ones. I have a son that is a Senior in HS that had never heard of a non-air conditioned school until he read your post over my shoulder B^)
January & February?? You do know that Britian is not in the Southern Hemisphere, right? So those months would be winter?
Sorry, I thought he was in Australia.
Crikey!
You know I heard that 40% of americans can't point to Britian on a map. I didn't think anyone could be that uneducationed, but now...
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That depends on who you are asking. I heard that 17% of kids in Arkansas don't know who our first president was. Pretty bad.
No, we get July & August off, like it should be.