CE Topic #1 Revised

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Sorry for this being late but I was invited to the group late, due to technical difficulties.  

  A balanced school calendar?  What is that? A balanced calendar is also referred to as year-round schooling.  But is it truly year-round?  Year-round schooling is often misunderstood to be school all year without breaks. It does occur throughout the year, but it still includes several breaks and the same number of days as our current school system.  For example the breaks in the balanced calendar are a month long for Winter, Spring, and Summer break, so there is the same amount of days of just evenly distributed throughout the year.


Pros: For the balanced or year round calendar there are some pros. For example instead of having two weeks break for Winter, and Spring break you would have one month to spend more time with family and friends. Also for Summer break instead of having two months you would only get 1 month so you would forget less of the knowledge that you learned the last school year.


Cons: There are definitely cons to the balanced calendar. In Winter break you wouldn't be have fun being inside if  it was raining all of winter. For Summer break lots of people go on long vacation's for the whole two months but then if the balanced calendar went in affect their vacation's would be cut short. Also in Summer break lots of kids play sports that go for the whole two months and then if the balanced calendar went in affect the schedules for the sports would get messed up.


   Personally I think that the balanced calendar is a bad idea because it would mess up lots of peoples schedules for sports.  

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Sorry for this being late but I was invited to the group late, due to technical errors. My topic is should there be a year long or balanced calender. I think that the year round or balanced calenders are bad ideas, and here is why. For the year round calender I think that it is a bad idea because there would be no time to go on vacations or just spend time with family or friends, students and teachers would be very busy. But there is one Con to the year round calender and that is students would have allot more time to embrace knowledge.

For the balanced calender , I think it is a bad idea personally because during winter break it doesn't snow that much here, and i don't think students would like sitting inside all day watching the rain. Also during summer break was shortened to one month students sports would be a lot hard to play because lots of people play sports in the summer. Personally I think that the Surrey School Board should keep the schedule the same.