Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010

Year-round school calendar is a bust

I am a stay-at-home mother of two children, one of whom is in Wakefield Elementary School, and the other of whom will enter in 2012.

I am trying to attain a nursing degree at Wake Technical Community College, which is on a traditional calendar.

A year-round schedule suits only families that have at least one parent at home. It is almost impossible for me to juggle a traditional college schedule, as well as a year-round elementary schedule and pre-school.

Unfortunately, the rest of the "working class" doesn't care what goes on in Wakefield's experiment. The current national economy is not what is was when year-round in Wakefield was an idea. Year-round schooling is taking a toll on families that are trying to get back to ground zero.

There has to be something said for the traditional school calendars: it worked for decades. Why fix something that wasn't broken?

Rhonda Cassidy

Raleigh