It is so funny as children we dread the fact of summer school we don’t want anything to do with school for three whole months. However the US has roughly 12 weeks of summer compared to other countries such as the UK who has 6 weeks of summer vacation- half!
Despite the fact that the US children have a longer period to loss valuable knowledge children in the US wouldn’t want to go to summer school even if Sumer was like the UK with a whopping 64 degrees Fahrenheit or 18 degrees Celsius.
However as children group up they realize that they want to get done with school as soon as possible. Thus they take summer term classes.
This is what I did. I thought it would be a great idea and I would get done with school sooner. It also made it so I got done in the middle of December rather than the end of March almost April.
It seemed like a fantastic plan at the time; however at my school summer term is 4 weeks shorter than normal term and me taking high level science classes that are fast paced in a 12 week term was adventurous to say the least. There are two more weeks but the six weeks of term so far have felt like 3 and now it’s all tests and exams from here on out, almost everyday.
So trying to get school done sooner may have not been the best idea because now I get no summer and I will have been going to school for a year straight with no summer only winter and spring break. So summer school/ term is good because it lets you get ahead but it can be really stressful and having no break makes it worse but at the same time you get done sooner. All in all it is up to the individual and what they value.