This proliferation of summer camps has created an equivalent demand for counselors to staff them, which means a variety of interesting summer jobs for high school and university students(mel.org) This means that college students who usually help run the camps will not be able to with year-round school. I would not like it because I would not be able to just enjoy the summer camps that I usually go to. Week-long specialty camps--covering everything from music to science to horseback riding to archaeology to sports--have made summer a time for opportunities unavailable during the school year. (mel.org) You do not learn these thing in regular school so it is good for students. Camps employ more than 1,500,000 adults to work in various camp positions. (2010 ACA Camp) This means that the people who work at summer camps will lose jobs. Scout Camps, Church Camps, Scholastic Camps and Athletic Camps could not operate because the normal labor pool of teachers, college students and high school students would not be available. There also would be a lack of participants due to the requirement of attending school for longer time periods in the summer.(georgiansneedsummers.com) This means students will lose summer camps because it is harder to fit them into the shorter breaks. Overall, year-round school will not be a good idea because students will lose the education that they usually get from summer camps.
Works Cited
"ACA Facts and trends" ACAcamps.org Web. 17 December 2014 http://www.acacamps.org/media/aca-facts-trends
Maclean's. "Leave Those Kids Alone: the case for long summer vacations" Mel.org 23 August 2010: Web.16 December 2013
Madison, Scotti. "Year-Round Schools: Is it The Answer or a Mere
Band-Aid?" georgiansneedsummers.com Web. 17 January 2014
http://www.georgiansneedsummers.com/letter.html
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