Most students in Hillsborough County look forward to the grand gift of summer break at the end of the school year. However, some don’t see why there should be a big gap at the end, rather than keeping the structure firm with short breaks every other week.
Mya Sweeney, a sophomore at Steinbrenner High School, was asked which format she preferred and without hesitation, she said traditional.
“Everybody’s used to it. And we want a whole season of summer instead of going to school. Because the air conditioning here breaks down all the time and I’d rather suffer in the heat at the beach than in a classroom with 30 other kids,” said Sweeney.
Summer break in Florida, like every other season, is almost always hot. Most students agree that enjoying the heat on the beach or at an amusement park sounds a lot better than dripping sweat in a hot classroom with a bunch of other hot and sweaty kids.
Charlie Woeste, a sophomore at Steinbrenner, said he liked the thought of having summer break instead of being at school all year. “I prefer traditional school because I’d like to have a two-month break, I feel like after a while the year-round schooling would get repetitive.”
Boredom during the school year can be frustrating at times, and that’s already when everyone is in traditional school. The idea of never having a break longer than a week until you graduate high school would be extremely tiring.
Students were also asked to give their thoughts on what the majority vote would be among the students at Steinbrenner and the greater weighed side of the story didn’t change.
Lilly Ratzell, a sophomore, thought that because a lot of kids were already used to having a summer break, they wouldn’t want to change that by going to school all year long. Sweeney and Woeste agreed.
“…because everyone’s already used to it, and it’s already engraved.” Said Ratzell. Already engraved, meaning even thinking of not having a 2-month break would feel unnatural and weird.
Even so, year-round schools show just as many benefits as a traditional school does. Year-round schools help reduce the impact of summer learning loss. Students can confirm that over the summer any knowledge easily forgotten will be.
Ratzell gave her stance on the matter, saying that she didn’t really see much of a problem with year-round schooling, because she could be able to remember things for her classes easier.
“I had Algebra 1 in middle school and last year I had Geometry. I honestly don’t remember a bunch of stuff that I had to do in my first algebra class and now I have to take the second one, which is really annoying,” said Ratzell.
Cody Castro//Staff Writer
