Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” School boards today take these words to heart, as they are more concerned than ever about students' education. The solution to their concerns about students undermining their education is the year-school method. This supposedly “education-saving” method offers the same number of school days, except the traditional summer break is swapped for smaller breaks throughout the year. While this method is supposed to increase student learning and intelligence, it's not all it's cracked up to be. Year-round school essentially causes more harm than good because it doesn't benefit students at all, represents a major expense for the school community, and detracts from the summer break. So the question remains: should we adopt year-round schools in our society? Well, in my opinion, I believe that we should keep away from the method of any kind of yearly education and not allow such an idea to be applied in our civilization. To begin with, yearly education should not be imposed in our society. because it does not benefit students in any way. An example of how year-round school does not benefit students is because it does not actually improve student learning and education as it is claimed to. To be sure of this Paul von Hippel, study author and statistical researcher in sociology at Ohio State, stated in this article that “We found that students in year-round schools appear to learn less than other children during the rest of the year” (“Year Round Schools Don’t Stimulate Learning, ScienceDaily Finds.”) Furthermore, Year Round Schools are… middle of paper… no good for people or students. Works Cited "Stress from schools all year round?". WikiAnswers. Web. 18 December 2013. "The pros and cons of school all year round." , n.d. Web. 18 December 2013. “Year-round schools do not boost learning, academic achievement.” ScienceDaily, 14 August 2007. Web. 18 December 2013. “Year-round school costs are questioned. The savings predicted in the report were based on faulty data." Baltimore Sun. NP, Nov. 7, 1995. Web. Dec. 18. 2013. .