In the previous post, I highlighted some of the positive aspects of year-round schooling.  As with anything, there are pros and cons.  These are the negative elements as I see them from a parent's perspective and from a teacher's perspective. In the traditional schedule, the need for childcare is consistent and predictable.  However, with year round schooling there may be some challenges to finding someone who can keep children for only three weeks at a time.  If you are fortunate enough to find someone who can provide that service, they may not appreciate the chance that your child will need remedial help during the interim breaks and not need their services (eliminating that source of income for the childcare provider).  Families that have multiple children in the school systems also find it difficult to coordinate schedules, especially if they have older children who are not on the year round schedule.  (Typically, year round schooling is for the elementary and middle grades.) As a teacher, I enjoy getting to know my students.  This occurs through day in and day out contact.  Students come to count on your stability and are terribly shaken when you are not consistently present.  I fear that this would be an issue in the year round schooling where students only have a brief nine-week segment in which to adjust, open-up, and bond with their teachers.  A three-week break can seem like an eternity to a child, especially to one whose homelife is shaky at best.  I also fear that students with poor attendance in the traditional model would only become more extreme in their absenteeism.  Going to school is a habit that takes time to form and for some it takes more than nine-weeks to establish a habit.  As a teacher I know that the first and last day of school are educationally useless.  We spend so much time going over rules and procedures on the first day and calming over-excited kids on the last that very little teaching, and therefore learning, actually occurs.  I fear that with year round school you would have this experience every time school reconvenes.