I'm For Year Round School

Here it is the first Friday night football game of the season for everybody and today is expected to be a heat index of 100 degrees.  Ladies and Gentleman I do not think we can consider this football weather.  When our last child Morgan was in elementary school she went to Winstead  which was a year round school.  I did not think much of the idea until we had been in the system for a couple of years.  Now that I have seen year round at work it is a really good effective schedule.

  It does not work in a system when a few go year round and the rest are standard. Parents have too many children on one schedule and other children on another causing parents to want to commit suicide..  The only answer in order for year round to work is the entire system just has to go cold turkey and say we are changing next year.

What we found out during our time in year round was the kids had three weeks off in September.  We were able to go on vacations like  the mountains with less people, even the beach was a more comfortable trip instead of  bumper to bumper traffic.  Another three weeks off in the spring and all of June off. Christmas time is off like standard kids.  It really was hard to find anything wrong with year round.

If year round comes to pass and sooner or later it will change  the high school sports calendar should change also.  Year round new school year starts that first Monday after the Fourth of July.  High school football practice should start the first day of school and start playing games the first Friday night in August which will end the regular season in mid October.  I am of course against five playoff football games and would like to see it drop to four but even with five the football season is over the last Friday night in November.

Basketball now starts around the 15th of November but if football season is over in Mid October basketball could begin with no conflicts with first round playoff football games requiring players who still are playing football and postponing basketball games.  The only conflict is the teams still playing in 4th and 5th rounds.

Because of the weather baseball has a tough time starting before March first and even then weather can be a real cold factor some days.  Our world is ever changing and should year round be adopted by the state at some time in the future it might not be a bad idea to change the sports schedules around. If school started in July High school baseball could be a fall sport.  The state playoffs could be over by mid November.  Football could be a so called spring sport with first game in late February and playoffs over by the first of June.

No longer does school start after Labor Day so the farmers can use their kids on the famers to get in crops.  Every school has air conditioning so the hot days of summer are no problem. There is one thing for sure, any schools system that tries to do both is making life miserable for everyone but especially for parents with more than one child.