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Year Round School; Friend or Fiend

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However, it seems that neither traditional nor year round school is truly an effective form of education. Though there are benefits and drawbacks to both year round school and traditional schools, some alternate plans could potentially educate students much more efficiently. The idea of year round school (YRS) is often misunderstood, as people believe that it is every day all year except for holidays...
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However, school is considered year round so long as the summer vacation lasts fewer than eight weeks (Hellerman 1). Thus, a school system that gives extended breaks and winter and spring holidays and has only a month and a half summer vacation can be considered year round. This arrangement, however, is not the most common form of year round education: Year round education organizes the school year to provide more continuous learning by dividing the long summer into shorter, more frequent breaks ? Students in a year round program attend the same classes and receive the same amount of instruction as students on a nine-month calendar (usually 180 days) ? The year round calendar is organized into instructional blocks and vacation periods that are evenly distributed across twelve months (McMillen 1)...
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