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  • Essay / Year-round schooling is an absurd idea - 514

    Three hundred and sixty-five days a year. One hundred and seventy-five years at school. One way or another, the question is always asked: year-round schooling? My response: absurd! Year-round schooling should not be implemented. Students would be overwhelmed with information and teachers would not get any additional benefits. Not to mention that students and teachers would have less time to spend with their families. Naturally, students would start to feel overwhelmed with information in the case of year-round schooling. Neurological study by Dr. Kyle Rogers and Associates showed that the brain sets a limit to its capacity when it is bombarded by too much information over a long period of time. I lived in Ohio for two years where I had the unpleasant opportunity to go to an experimental year-round school. During a normal school year, I was fine, but after continuing beyond that, I couldn't grasp things as completely or retain information that my classmates agreed on. Basically your mind and mine will set a limit amount of ...