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- From: kmushal@eis.calstate.edu (KAYE MUSHALIK)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: School Year Round
- Message-ID: <BxwFCC.I2q@eis.calstate.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 06:28:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.231300.1@cbrown.claremont.edu>
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- dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu writes:
- > In article <BxuI4r.5yr@access.digex.com>, mjensen@access.digex.com (MPJensen) writes:
- > >>hunter@master.lds-az.loral.com (Bill Hunter) writes:
- >
- > >>I am a School Board Member in Arizona. We are currently reviewing a
- > >>schedule change from traditional to year Round classes... I am looking
- > >>for some strong arguments for and against this issue.
- >
- > > Keeping school buildings in continuous use will increase maintenance
- > > costs and utility expenditures. A Nebraska district estimated at least a
- > > 25% increase (mostly from AC--hot summers!)
- >
- > On the other hand, it will cost considerably less to pay a
- > teacher X% more than to add X% more teachers. This is the main
- > justification for year-round schooling in most places that do it:
- > by running school year round, fewer teachers can teach more
- > students without having over-large classes. Someone described a
- > model where all students were present all year. Never heard of
- > that. More common is 2/3 of the students are in school at any
- > given semester.
- >
- > -dh
-
- I'm not sure I understand that last statement about "fewer teachers can
- teach more students without having over-large classes."
-
- I teach in a 4-track year-round school in San Jose, CA. Basically, 4 teachers
- share three classrooms. Our schedule is approx. 12 weeks in school and 4 weeks
- on vacation. The school year starts the first of July (give or take a few days
- depending upon on which day the 4th of July falls). The end of the school
- year is usually around the end of the 3rd week in June. We still teach 180
- days.
-
- Getting back to the above statement - I don't see that "fewer" teachers
- can teach "more" students. However, our SCHOOL can handle MORE students
- during the school year. We HAD to go to year-round in our district due to
- the population growth in this area. If I had my "druthers", I'd opt for
- year-round school with one track-no changing classrooms (a con) while having
- more frequent, short (more retention) vacations (less teacher burnout too)
- (a pro).
-
- ***Kaye Mushalik
- Hillsdale Y-R Elem.
- San Jose, CA
- INTERNET: kmushal@eis.calstate.edu
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