that travel every school day use the districts money for gasoline and repairs. The money needed to cover the maintenance these costs can be very hard for a district to swallow, because someone must cover them. Taxes would have to shoot up to solve the dilemma. Overall, the costs add up and equal a loss for student’s environment. Due to the structuring, students and teachers would not be given time to recuperate from the prior year and to prepare for the future. Many students use the summer for a vacation with their parents. However, with a school in the summer it would be much harder for a family to find a convenient time. Research shows that students would be more likely to burnout from school as they are not given an extended break in the summer (White 29). Teachers are also not given enough time to prepare for their next incoming class (Sevetson 3). An unprepared teacher can only mean much more time wasted. The summer has also been a time when students can change their lifestyles. "Many students and teachers rely on the summer for a chance to mature and grow a little older. With year round school, many lose that chance to change an attitude problem or become wiser." (Sardo- Brown and Rooney 25). It is important that students continue to mature throughout high school. Year- round school does not guarantee that this will occur. Time spent with friends would also decrease as many students run on different schedules. Friendship is one of the most important things in the development of today's child (Sardo-Brown 27). However, year round school separates most students into about two or three different schedules (Somerby 8). Students are not given any preference as to which one it follows and it is simply luck of the draw. The biggest problem would be the adaptation to a schedule by the students and teachers. For students already in junior high or high school, year round school would be a hard schedule to follow (Sevetson 2). Af...
