Year Round Schooling

Year round schooling. There are a lot of arguments about whether it will happen for us or not. 


Recently, the government suggested year round schooling or a balanced calendar for B.C. This could possibly mean less summer break BUT longer spring break and/or Christmas break. This is what they have proposed but this may not be the way that it folds out. Also they have said that if it does happen, then schools can somewhat decide when the holidays will be and when we will have to be in school.


The reason they want to change the school calendar is because they think that if kids aren't off for as long, such as summer break, that they will focus better and that they will remember more from their last school year, which would help them. Also, the way that the system was designed was for the farmers. They had the long summer break for helping harvest their food. Now children don't really need to help with that as much anymore since there isn't as many farms, well at least in Surrey. Also, since you don't just have two weeks for spring break but maybe four, you may go on a bigger vacation. Then you would have more time to relax. Plus, the vacation may be longer too and you would get to do more there as well. 


My argument against this is that summer break is what everyone who goes to school looks forward to. Knowing that there is summer break after the school year is over is what gets us through the year. Also, what happens if this does happen and say Kelowna, goes on a different school schedule than Surrey? I have friends that live there and the only time I get to see them is in the summer. So now, I would never get to see them. I would have to take time off school, miss lessons which is bad for my learning to get to see them. Also, sports would be afffected. If we have longer periods off at a time, then people go on vacation which then teams can't practice. Such as baseball. They start right at the beginning of April. What if we get all of April off? Then they would have to start in May and then go further into the summer which is even hotter. 


In conclusion, I think that year round schooling is a bad idea because I do look forward to my summer break and I don't really want to go to school in July because it's to hot for me to focus. Also, having only 2 weeks off at christmas is nice because there really isn't that much to do since it is usually snowing and it is cold.


So, is year round schooling a good or bad thing?