Vacations During The School Year

Tori Hennick 

Arts and Culture Editor 

Travel improves educational purposes.
Photo credit Tori Hennick.

Stressful school days call for vacations. Some may think that taking a vacation during the school year is bad news, but according to www.familyvacationcritic.com, taking a couple of days off to do something with your friends or family is actually just what someone needs to distress.

            Travel Improves Educational Attainment & Future Success conducted a survey to determine whether traveling during the school year had a positive effect on students or not. The results showed that those who went on trips that had an educational purpose between the ages of 12 and 18 had higher grades, and travel helped 59 percent of participants achieve success in school. Eighty percent of those who traveled also had a greater interest in school.

            The results may have been because they got a few days to have fun and not be stressed out about what was going on at school or at work. www.familyvacationcritic.com also says that it is not a good idea for students to leave school if they are doing poorly in their classes already.

            Math teacher Trina Rogers believes that missing school because of illness is worse than missing school because of a vacation.

            “I think it is harder to make up work after being ill.  Usually if students miss a lot of class due to illness, they still don't feel very well when they come back.  It takes a lot of time and energy to get better on top of the time and energy to get caught up,” said Rogers.

            Rogers also believes that the level of difficulty does change due to the student’s age.

            “I think it is definitely harder for high school kids to get caught up.  They have more teachers and more subjects to catch up on, and they can't just stay in for recess a few times to get caught up,” said Rogers.