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WHAT NOW?
While methods of year-round schooling have full potential to improve disadvantaged school districts, the possibility is often ignored due to the costs and efforts that they entail. However, it is crucial that the issue of long summer breaks adversely affecting young impoverished students and families is addressed.
Photo by Livia Gershon, a writer published on JSTOR Daily.
Though it may come with drawbacks, the social, financial, and economic gains offered by a year-round academic calendar are too vast to reject. Children living in disadvantaged school districts are being harmed socially, economically, and academically by having to endure extensive summer breaks.
In contrast, these individuals show better behavior, better health and nutrition, and better test scores when put into a year-round school environment. Throughout the United States, endless poverty-stricken communities have to go each school year without reaping these considerably achievable benefits.
The nation must work toward a system more tailored to individuals living in these school districts, who are often overlooked. Members of impoverished communities deserve an opportunity for higher education and overall success just as much as any other American.
The current tradition of long summer breaks may be appropriate for financially well-off students, but it hinders survival and advancement for disadvantaged students and their families; year-round schooling, especially the multi-track approach, can aid financially struggling individuals in physical health, social activity, academic proficiency, and child care. Additionally, the multi-track system can greatly increase financial efficiency for families and school districts of areas where it is carried out.
It is imperative that government and school district officials in the United States recognize these benefits and accordingly implement policy in order to create better lives for their constituents.
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