‘Year-Round Challenge’

As a junior in high school, I feel that I am well-qualified to answer the question of whether or not to abandon the traditional school calendar in favor of year-round schooling.

Year-round schooling, although proposed as a solution to student overpopulation, will prove to be detrimental to the quality of education in the L.A. School District.

The constant need for repetition of previously covered material due to the students’ varied schedules, the lessened amount of contact among the different ethnic groups owing to segregation by student schedules, whereas the traditional system places all of the students in the schools at one particular time period, and the effects of the termination of the summer school system, since all will not share the same vacation period, are three major resulting problems that will be faced by the city should the school board inaugurate year-round schooling.

One cannot argue that reform is necessary to solve the problem of overpopulation in schools; however, measures should not be taken that will have a harmful effect on the education of Los Angeles’ younger generation.

JEANNIE S. HUANG

Northridge