Year-round Education

There is an idea that kids should be in school all during the year without any summer break, and I believe the idea is both a good and bad thing. The idea is that students will retain more of what they learn and that it will solve most of the problems that the education system presently has. Those who are opposed to the proposal argue that students will forget material anyway regardless of their time off on breaks. The short breaks the students will receive will restrict their ability to seek summer employment as well as the attendance at various summer camps. This will in turn affect businessess that sometimes rely on students coming to work for them because of summer break. Jobs are becoming a precious commodity these days and I think it would be a much better idea to keep the system how it is so that those jobs can be spared. Although there are some problems with this education proposal, there are some benefits that would be brought about by it. The probability that students' retention rate might increase and that the students will not get bored of the long summer break bring some upside to education. The studies on the implementation of the new year-round system are inconclusive and there is no glaring upside or downside to qualify it as a definite plan to move forward with. With all that being said, I am undecided whether the idea of year-round school would be a good idea or not, but I think it is something that should be looked over and following as it is diliberated on.