Switching to a Year-Round School Calendar

In the United States, most schools still use the 10 month calendar. This was developed when students from our country needed assistance from school (Palmer). Kim Jones, the principal of Trimble Regional School, says: "The school education throughout the year is a concept away from the old agricultural calendar ... This is the season of planting." (Qtd of Hapuka). Under the agricultural system, most American students attend 9 to 10 I spent months and got a summer vacation for two to three months.

One of the main arguments of the American educational system is whether to switch to a full-year calendar at a public school. In the United States, the school currently begins in early September or the end of August and ends often in June. The US government obliges schools to attend at least 175 to 185 days a year. Normal school days are about 7 hours. There are usually two months' summer vacation between two different grade. Schools are usually divided into semesters, but the school year distribution is mainly determined by the school district ("American Education" 15)

In California, the calendar was changed in about 1000 schools between 1998 and 2005, the score of the test did not increase in the school changed to a full-year calendar, and the score did not decrease even in the school that switched to the conventional calendar It was. In the most popular state in the US, I used one fifth of the annual calendar in the latter half of the 1990s, but now I use only one of the 20 annual calendars. Outside of California, calendars are being tested throughout the year, including Oklahoma City, Greary, North Carolina, Las Vegas, Indianapolis and so on. No one has seen that the test score goes up. However, every year the Board of Education across the country discusses the benefits of changing the calendar, often without research or evidence from other countries.