students should take a class in school for more than 11months of a year?
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School is a place where students learn lots of knowledge from their teachers which is critical for them to achieve their goal. According to a this logic, offering them chance to get educated from school for more than 11months of a year might be beneficial to them anyway. However, it does not seem to be the best way to educate student in that way when we judge it in the aspect of quality of lecture and opportunity to participate in various activities out of school life. First of all, attending school over than 11months is more likely to be connected to low quality of education from teachers. For providing students with improved lecture, it is necessary that teacher prepare their lecture with searching material which is updated recently or developing new methods to teach their students, but it seems to be impossible for teachers to prepare it within months. For example, my father, who is science teacher at middle school, usually spend more than 2months on preparation for next semester lecture during a vacation. According to a research conducted by 'Time magazine' in 2006 said that more than 75% teachers at middle school in America responded that it takes them at least from 2months to 3months to prepare their lecture if they want to offer much better lecture to students. Of course, some people say that they can prepare it after class, not during the vacation. However, they have lots of jobs such as marking a grade on student's exam or handling many problems happening between students. Second, there are many valuable social activities or experiences out of school except learning knowledge in classroom. Even though school's main purpose is to educate students as much as possible, they also have to experience another thing to be mature in their life during a long vacation. From my experience, having a vacation more than 2months a year have always offered me an opportunity that I could work for local community or take a trip in abroad as well as supplement my weak point in specific subjects. A research conducted by Korea University in 2006 supported this idea well by it's result of survey that more than 85% students at middle school responded that they need vacation at least 2months in that it is beneficial for them to experience lots of thing that they couldn't do in the school. To sum up, having some break time from school can be more profitable for both student and teacher in the sense that teacher are able to have a chance to improve a quality of education which will be learned by students, and also students can find something valuable activities in their life during the vacation. |