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Get rid of a single long summer break and the entire concept of a “school year”. Divide the year into quarters. Students can start in summer, spring, winter,

• rtkwe 8y ago
  > Students can start in summer, spring, winter, or fall That's much harder to do than it sounds because now you have 4 groups 3 months apart in the curriculum. The only way to really do it would be to segregate the kids from the different start times into separate classes otherwise it'd be pretty impossible to teach. There will also be a slight variation in class size depending on the quarter it's for. as August and September are over represented as birthdays. I do think year round schools probably make more sense overall so there's not such a huge gap where kids forget so much.
  • bigpicture 8y ago
    My local elementary school has 3 classrooms per grade. If we broke the year into quarters and made each student attend 3 out of 4 quarters, what you'd end up with is more efficient use of school facilities making up for a slightly higher teacher cost. Probably.
    • rtkwe 8y ago
      I think before we do rolling quarters moving to a year round schedule would do more to improve student performance than the more granular age groupings. Could also just group the kids into however many classrooms are in each school to do both.