Yeah, but How?
Trying something new, like year round school, started as someone's BHAG.
What is making adjustments to try to benefit students?
This would not solve the current summer problem of finding affordable childcare.
What is year round school? In fact, it would potentially make things tougher according to some studies. Now you're trying to find consistent childcare for multiple breaks throughout the year.
This is the number of states that currently have at least one year round public school.
How many is 46?
This impact on reading scores due to year round school.
What is positive?
This is the most expensive time of year to have students in school.
What is summer?
The idea that students would be going to school at a steady pace of on again, off again days of education and relaxation.
What is the basic premise of year round school?
This directly benefits from agrarian school calendar; and it impacts all of us more than we realize.
What is the summer economic boom from tourism and vacationing? Maryland crunched the numbers. $74.3 Million just due to school getting pushed back to after Labor Day.
Something 20% of students with mental illnesses are in need of from their public school.
What are school counseling services? Now take away those services for 3 months every year.
More of these types of plans could be implemented if year round school was implemented.
What are student focused multi-track plans? (This is pretty wild. Think BSSD, Think LSR7)
This is something most teens would struggle to keep.
What is a summer job?
This is the number of school days in both year round school and the traditional calendar of school.
What is the same, or ~180?
This is the fear of most parents with children of differing ages.
What is siblings going to school on completely different schedules? This does happen.
This is the drop out rate of year round schools vs traditional schedule schools.
2% vs 5% national averages.
What is reteaching?
This summer tradition may suffer for football / other fall sports.
What are summer training camps?
This is a total myth, leading many to believe agriculture to be the reason for a summer break.
What is students needed to have the summer off for agriculture reasons? Students couldn't go to school due to the heat of most states, and lack of air conditioning.
This allows an even distribution of vacation throughout the calendar year.
What is year round school?
These are the students who would benefit the most from a year round school schedule.
Who are minority students is less affluent school districts?
This is what many schools ended up cutting due to year round school.
What is the summer school program?
This would be the biggest problem when initially starting the year round school calendar. This is why many schools don't make the switch.
What is the initial cost of running a school year round?
This is the days on vs days off formula that most schools use when incorporating a year round school.
What is the 3:1 Ratio? For example: 45 on 15 off, 60 on 20 off, 90 on 30 off.
This is a positive of year round school for working parents with school aged children.
What is a consistent child care schedule?
This is what Year-Round school allows schools to do with it's calendar / course offerings
This is the biggest reason school switch to year round school.
What is it's best for student achievement / combats learning loss?
Educators may be opposed to this.
What is working around the calendar? Specifically Jake in the summer.