Ready or Not, Here Comes Year-Round Schooling
Recently the Wake County School Board approved an initiative to implement year-round school schedule for nineteen elementary and middle schools. This change forces faculty, students, and parents to adjust to an unfamiliar routine. Like any major adjustment, some individuals support, while others dislike the new plan. Regardless, the board has already approved the change in policy, and everyone will have to simply “deal with it.”
Under the new system students will still be required to attend 180 days in each academic year. The year will be divided into four quarters with forty-five days of instruction, followed by fifteen days of break. However, the students and teachers will each be placed on one of four tracks. All students and teachers on a track will have the same school days and vacation days, but the vacation days will be different for each track. At any given time, three tracks of students and their teachers are in......
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