Year around school does not only affect the children and parents it also affects businesses as well. I work at a local gas station where the summers are absolutly crazy. Children who are leaving for vacation or the beach and the oh so popular kids that have just learned to drive and think it is a milestone to get there own gas now. If school were to become a year around thing a business like the one I work at would not get the amount of customers as we do now. That can lead to businesses folding if it were to be a drastic change which would lead to more unemployed people, and in living in Elkhart County it is understood that we really do not need more people without jobs.
I can remember the first summer I was old enough to get a job. I had just recieved a car and needed to find money. I was never a kid who would only want a summer job so I kept my job even when school started back up. I thought at first that I was going to get buried alive with all of the stress of school, work, and my new car bills. If there were year around school children would not be able to adapt to a new job as well because they would not have that break to only focus on their job. That could lead to poor work habits and bad grades during the summer sessions.
Overall children need those few months of no school to be able to adapt to new jobs and opportunities that they would usually not have to face if they were in school. Yes children would more than likley get into more trouble but if they cannot make the mistakes in the first place they will never have the opportunity to learn from them and that is what children need to grow.
I can remember the first summer I was old enough to get a job. I had just recieved a car and needed to find money. I was never a kid who would only want a summer job so I kept my job even when school started back up. I thought at first that I was going to get buried alive with all of the stress of school, work, and my new car bills. If there were year around school children would not be able to adapt to a new job as well because they would not have that break to only focus on their job. That could lead to poor work habits and bad grades during the summer sessions.
Overall children need those few months of no school to be able to adapt to new jobs and opportunities that they would usually not have to face if they were in school. Yes children would more than likley get into more trouble but if they cannot make the mistakes in the first place they will never have the opportunity to learn from them and that is what children need to grow.
I agree that this would put a strain on businesses. I also believe it is going to be harder to for kids to find jobs, because its going to be difficult for employers to work around a students schedule that constantly has to change it due to school. The part about work ethic that you brought up is a good point too. Its going to put a lot of stress on kids to constantly go back and forth between school and work at the same time, and just work. I think it will get confusing and they won't be putting the correct effort in both places.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but I still don't agree. There are a lot of jobs that provide flexible scheduling that can accomodate a student's school schedule. If you believe that attention needs to be placed in one area at a time, then education is the more important endevor. As it is, students all over the country work during the regular school year and do just fine. Heaven forbid we teach our children things like time management skills, or perhaps task prioritization. As for businesses, I still don't agree. I'll grant you they would not have balloon business. But they wouldn't "lose" business. It would simply be more evenly distributed throughout the year. There would still be vacations to be taken. They would be in chunks of weeks, though, not months.
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