School Year Round
Year Round School: An Annual Mistake
Throughout time education has been considered a process that every so often must be improved. The education quality in the U.S. has declined over the years and people have been looking for a way to make improvements. A more recent proposal has been to go from a traditional nine-month schedule to an all year program. Supporters of year round school claim it gives the student a better education. However, the prospect of year round school is not beneficial to the taxpayers pocket, to the education a student receives, or to the people involved with the district.
All year school ends up costing the school district and surrounding community more money than a traditional nine-month schedule. "More funds would be needed to cover the costs of paying the teachers and staff for one full year instead of for 180 days work." (Stevenson 2). "Teachers currently make an average of $37, 000 in the United States. However, the costs would increase to $53, 000 to keep the teachers for a full year." (Somersby 8). Currently, a district uses a lot of its budget on paying teachers. Once the increased costs are put in place, the budget depletes rapidly. Yet teachers must be paid, as they are the cornerstones of education. Also, it takes additional funds to run the school all year, due to things such as air conditioning in the summer (White 28). Many schools due not currently need AC systems to be used. However, AC is a costly ame...
One of the most talked about issues of schooling today, would be year round schooling. The program started as a new way to learn. The old way and still the way most schools calendar is set up was designed the way it is due to harvest times, when the United States was a farming country. There have been many studies done, and some schools have already implemented this program. The studies and the schools that have gone ahead and implemented the program have seen both good things and bad things in their findings. There will be both pros and cons for every issue, and some may see pros and cons differently. Year round schooling is the idea of attending school for an entire year, not all 365 days, but continuously throughout the year. Year round schooling operates on a different schedule to incorporate the same amount of classroom time as a typical school schedule has. The only difference is that the breaks are shorter, but there are more of them in year round schooling. This is the basis of most of the arguments for and against year round schooling.
The first diet I choose to look at was the Bulletproof diet (the one my brother is following) started by Dr. David Perlmutter. Bulletproof is the more extreme version of Paleo even if Dr. Perlmutter isn’t exactly following the Paleo diet, since his own modified version of this is the Bulletproof diet, I decided to use him to be a base for Paleo since he is the most publicized speaker about this diet. Dr. Perlmutter’s diet is filled with controversy; one of his claims is that wheat is an opiate; this has ...
The change of the system to include summer breaks was due to issues not quite under their
There are various models of YRS that can be implemented, all of which are reconfigurations of the traditional, nine-month calendar. In some areas these models are known as alternative or modified calendars (Shields & Oberg, 2000) and they all have unique characteristics. Because of theses differences, school systems should spend some time analyzing which model will be best for their particular school; educators may find that some models work better than others depending on the school. Estimates on the exact number of year round schedules vary, although it has been estimated that at least 50 different scheduling patterns exist (Palmer & Bemis, 1999). The most common alternatives include the single track calendar and the multi-track calendar.
Roy’s The God of Small Things illustrates history as “a dominating, oppressive force that saturates virtually all social and cultural spaces, including the familial, intimate, and affective relationships.” (Needham 372). The small personal conflicts that play out in the Ipe Family are symbolic of the larger historic struggles of the entire nation. The story can then be read as a ‘national allegory’, a term that Frederic Jameson uses in context of third world texts and explains that,
OFFICER OBSERVATIONS AND INVESTIGATION: While en-route I overheard SGT Tindel advised he was in the area. SGT Tindel then advised he was attempting to stop a vehicle in the area but they were refusing to stop. I advised SGT Tindel I was close to the area and needed to know the direction of travel of the fleeing vehicle. SGT Tindel advised the vehicle came to a stop in front of space #38 in the Alamo Trailer Park and he now had three subjects held at gunpoint. Myself and Officer Garza arrived on scene and observed three male suspects lying face down on the ground. Myself and Officer Garza secured the three male suspects in handcuffs while SGT Tindel provided lethal cover. SGT Tindel placed two of the male suspects, later identified as Alejandro Olivares and Armando Delgado in the back seat of his patrol unit. Officer Garza placed the third male suspect, later identified as Christopher Benites in the back seat of his patrol unit.
Family vacations, pool memberships, and corn de-tasseling; these have been the experiences of traditional Midwestern summers. For centuries young American children have attended school during the winter months, during farming off seasons when their families could afford to be without them. Families have grown accustomed to a traditional school calendar that provides time for bonding throughout the year. Students have grown accustomed to an eight week break during the summer months where they are allowed to refresh their minds before returning for a new school year. Unfortunately, these traditional experiences and practices are now in jeopardy. In today’s race to improve student achievement, traditional school calendars have become a point of contention. Today more and more school districts and parents alike have begun to debate the pros and cons of an alternative school calendar.
The paleo diet is based off of how the pre-historic humans were thought to eat thousands of years ago. There diet consisted of meat, fish, poultry, fruits and vegetables. The diet avoids anything that pre-historic people did not have available to them. Although this diet does not meet the substantial amount of carbohydrates recommended by the government ("Paleo Diet - US News Best Diets"). The prehistoric people were still able to get the nutrients they needed to thrive and survive. The paleo diet was beneficial to the prehistoric people motivating growth and development into the culture, creatures and community known today ("Paleo Diet - US News Best Diets").
School Should Begin Later in the Day Many teenage high school students are tired during the school day. distracting them from their studies. That is just one of the many good reasons. that the start time of school should be later in the day. Some people may say that the brain is not fully functional until 9:30 is just a matter of opinion.
Endometriosis is a chronic, progressive disorder in which tissue resembling the inner lining of the uterus known as endometrium grows and appears at unusual locations in the lower abdominal cavity. It is a condition that occurs when the endometrium, tissue that lines the inside of the uterus, grows outside of the uterus. During your menstrual cycle the endometrium thickens to get ready for the egg. If the egg is fertilized, it will attach to the endometrium and begin to
Endometriosis causes pain for a lot of women who suffer with it. The pain may be a constant pressure in the lower stomach or lower back. It may come when they are having sexual intercourse or when they are having a bowel movement. You may feel constant pain in your pelvis, rectum, or vagina that does not go away. The pain levels may vary from slightly uncomfortable to extremely painful, depending on the severity of your particular
The Paleo Diet also known as “The Caveman Diet” has gained wide popularity across the country with everyone from celebrities to your average Joe’s next door. The uprising of this diet better referred to as a lifestyle has come from ideas and guidelines that are not new by any means. The foundation of The Paleo Diet stems from our ancestors, the Paleolithic, who lived over 40,000 years ago. They consumed foods that were available to them. Their diet consisted of lean proteins, carbohydrates that came from fruits and vegetables and their fats were monounsaturated of polyunsaturated. They did not have dairy or grains (unless it was a time of starvation). They of course did not use salt on their foods and there were no refined sugars and no processed foods available. They were lean and healthy, free of diseases such a hypertension and high blood pressure. “The medical evidence shows that their body fat, aerobic fitness, blood cholesterol, blood pressure and in...
The body modified itself to live in a world where food was hunted, fished and/or gathered from the environment in its natural state. The body is still designed to eat whole, natural foods, not overly processed, “fake” foods. These foods tend to be high in vitamins, minerals, and/or fiber, tend to be filling, and tend to not spike blood sugar. The paleo diet has been around centuries and most likely will be for more to come. A diet based on eating natural elements that have come from mother nature. By eating whole, natural foods, the body can processes things a lot smoother and function more efficiently. The body digests cleaner, simpler foods better compared to oily, overly processed
A key component of the Paleo diet is the importance of eating higher quality unprocessed foods. These types of foods are typically high in fiber compared to their processed equivalents, and fiber will fill up your stomach thereby limiting how much you eat. As well, this diet tends to contain more protein than average. Protein will satisfy your appetite more than anything else, potentially causing you to eat less. Thus, it is likely that you will lose fat just from eating less than normal.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy tells the story of the communist state of Kerala and the forbidden love between two castes, which changes the lives of everyone. In the novel an ‘Untouchable’, Velutha is a carpenter and works at Paradise Pickles and Preserves for much less than he deserves because of his status as an Untouchable in the caste system. Velutha falls into a forbidden love with a divorced woman, Ammu who is associated with an upper caste Syrian Christian Ipe family. Marriage was the only way that Ammu could have escaped this life, but she lost the chance when marrying the wrong man, as he was an alcoholic and this resulted in them getting a divorce. Ammu breaks the laws that state ‘who should be loved, and how and how much’, as their affair threatens the ‘caste system’ in India, which is a hierarchal structure and social practice in India in which your position in society is determined and can’t be changed. Arhundati Roy portrays the theme of forbidden love within the caste systems and shows how they are t...