tell me 5 good reasons why year-round schools are bad.?
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There are plenty of pros and cons. Here's a few of the cons:\n\n- Studies have been inconclusive to its academic benefits.\n- Students are going to forget information whether they are out of school for three weeks or 10. Therefore, teachers will be performing four beginning of the year reviews instead of just one.\n- Summer programs such as youth camps suffer.\n- Student summer employment will be virtually impossible.\n- Many schools are older and do not have air conditioning. Those that do will face higher electricity expenses due to summer use.\n- Band and other extracurricular programs could be hurt because of problems scheduling out of school practices and competitions.\n- If the entire school district does not go year round, parents could have students at different schools on different schedules.\n- With multi-tracking, parents could have students at the same school on different schedules. \n- Student and teacher burnout\n- Impact on tourism
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-lack of resourses and poorly financed\n-lack of parental involvement and support\n-odd and mismanaged educational priorities.  Example: to waste time teaching Intelligent Design as a science\n-too much time off and vacations.
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The U.S. public school system is horrible.  Grammar and spelling are just the only subjects that show up here.  Outside of N. America, most US children couldn't label a map.
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kids dont like school cuz its BORING!!!!!!!!!!\nteachers just get in the way of having fun in our eyes. nothing can be fixed about it unless some1 makes it, well, fun
270010
I'd say good name and great location but the rest ... it's up to you to find out. I've heard it was pretty kafkaian the administration there and the teachers are way over their heads. Students are very stuck up and there's no school spirit! Try concordia or UdeMontreal you'd be better served!
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no.  it punishes schools that are doing a decent job by expecting ALL schools to live up to an impossible goal.  why not penalize just the schools that are inferior?  honestly, when you look at the average school population (severely mentally handicapped, etc.) how exactly do you expect EVERY child to be performing on grade level by 2013?
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I'm not sure I understand your question, "Was any middle school experience bad?"\n\nOf course some middle school experiences were bad, how could bad moments not turn up during three solid years of this thing called Life?
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i could sit here forever and list a whole bunch of reasons but it probably be easier for you to jusut type this\ndebate+cell phones in school \nexactly into google\nyoull get a whole bunch of reasons against/for cell phones in school\n\nand these are to really good sites\n\nhttp://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04336/419517.stm\n\nhttp://www.americasdebate.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3835\n\n\nokay hoped this helps
1018489
That's not always true. I went to a public school and never had any bad experiences like that.
1017915
The problem I have encountered in my kids high school is a lack of content in classes that are not Honors or AP level.  The coursework provides little homework and the projects are lame.  Nothing is learned.  Add content or drop the class from the school!   More kids need to be academically stretched and challenged!
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i guess they all have their own downsides public schools can be crowded private schools are expensive with a certain genre of people and home schooling doesnt give you all of the social aspects you may need in life. i think it all depends on the certain child and what their specific needs are
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Easy to take a year off.\nHard to go back to school.  \nAnd hard to get back into student mode once you're there.  \nAt least for me...
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no i dont think its bad for you to miss school in a situtation like that .. they need to do something so the better students that wont to learn dont punish for the other ones
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1.  The teachers' union.  This causes the wrong sort of people to be retained as teachers just because they have seniority, while good teachers with low seniority are let go.  It also stifles creativity and superior teaching techniques, because the whole mentality of a union is to not show up the marginal worker.  Teachers are not factory workers!\n\n2.  Bureaucracy, and specifically federal bureaucracy.  They have their own agenda, and it runs toward the Politically Correct, to propaganda, and makes the individual student's needs the lowest priority.  The bureaucracy is inflexible, inefficient, and expensive.\n\nBasically, anything that interferes with a child's ability to learn what is interesting to him, what he needs for his life in the future, and what his parents want him to know, is bad for the child.  Most of the social conditioning is bad for the child.  And generally, the physical conditions are bad for the child.\n\nI understand the black tee shirt I saw on the bus when the high school kids got on:  "School prepares you for the real world, which also s**ks."
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I went to a K-12 school for elementary school but I left after 5th grade cause my family moved.  It wasn't all in one building, but my class was like 30 something, and the high school classes weren't any bigger, so I thin it was even smaller than your class of 42.  And it was all girls, too.  Where I used to live there were like three good private schools that were K-12, and one that was just high school, and that was basically it except for the public schools which were really, really bad.  A lot of private schools are K-12, and I think sometimes public schools in really small rural towns might be sometimes too.
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What school?  What level?  What's wrong with the current schedule?  What's good about the current schedule?  What are you trying to accomplish? \n\nThis isn't a good question, but with a little more detail, it could be!
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I dont but that seriously surprises me.I live in NY and I thought that bigger schools and most of the schools on the east coast were year round schools. Im from rural Nebraska, and I didnt go to a year round school. I guess i never thought what it would be like to attend one or have my child attend one.. hmmmm.. you got me thinkin on that one!