Everyday waiting for the moment to come, the moment to go home. Everyday waiting for that time of day for 10 months. It'll make me go mad one day. There are two big reasons I don't like going to school with our normal calendar. First is that going away for 2 1/2 months can reduce your knowledge of everything you learned last year before going on you summer break. Second off is that during the school year kids get tired of school because of going to it for so long. You might be asking yourself well if you don't want to use the normal school calendar then how will you get your education? Well, I have a solution with me. Instead of going to school with our normal school calendar we should go to school with a modified school calendar. Now you might be asking yourself " what in the world is that ? ". We'll I have an answer to that question of yours too.
A Modified School Calendar is a calendar where you have a summer vacation for only 1 1/2 months. Well that isn't a long summer break but listen to this. You go to school back in July and then after every quarter you get off for 2 weeks (15 days). The period is called intersession where you can go to school and do fun stuff for example you can take a cooking class, language class etc. or you can stay home and chill. Plus if intersession comes around a holiday, your holiday you get those days off plus you 15 days of intersession. I'm sure a lot of students will enjoy that idea!
After some research off the Internet I found out that most teachers have said that after they have gone on a modified school calendar the student’s level of performance has raised. I agree with that fact because when my old school went on a modified calendar I was getting better grades then I used to. And the students who rarely tried to do their best, their grades have increased!
One other teacher said that her students were making great progress in their reading scores because the more breaks they had the more reading time they had!
There was one thing I found really interesting was that a teacher in California had said " After having a modified school calendar my students have reduced their summer memory loss ". I think that happened because the shorter your summer is that less you forget when you come back to school. Thanks to the short memory loss the students have started to get high scores in the state finals. The state test scores are going skyrocket from what they used to be.
Now I have done my job now it’s your turn to tell me what you think. Should we go on a modified school calendar? Should we still continue going on our normal school calendar which doesn't give kids that much time to do their studies? My answer is to go on a modified school calendar but it’s your thinking that counts let your voice be heard!
A Modified School Calendar is a calendar where you have a summer vacation for only 1 1/2 months. Well that isn't a long summer break but listen to this. You go to school back in July and then after every quarter you get off for 2 weeks (15 days). The period is called intersession where you can go to school and do fun stuff for example you can take a cooking class, language class etc. or you can stay home and chill. Plus if intersession comes around a holiday, your holiday you get those days off plus you 15 days of intersession. I'm sure a lot of students will enjoy that idea!
After some research off the Internet I found out that most teachers have said that after they have gone on a modified school calendar the student’s level of performance has raised. I agree with that fact because when my old school went on a modified calendar I was getting better grades then I used to. And the students who rarely tried to do their best, their grades have increased!
One other teacher said that her students were making great progress in their reading scores because the more breaks they had the more reading time they had!
There was one thing I found really interesting was that a teacher in California had said " After having a modified school calendar my students have reduced their summer memory loss ". I think that happened because the shorter your summer is that less you forget when you come back to school. Thanks to the short memory loss the students have started to get high scores in the state finals. The state test scores are going skyrocket from what they used to be.
Now I have done my job now it’s your turn to tell me what you think. Should we go on a modified school calendar? Should we still continue going on our normal school calendar which doesn't give kids that much time to do their studies? My answer is to go on a modified school calendar but it’s your thinking that counts let your voice be heard!
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