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El Camino College The Union

The student news site of El Camino College

El Camino College The Union

The student news site of El Camino College

El Camino College The Union

Is summer school a good idea? NO

Students should not waste their time attending summer school.
Summer is the time of year for students to forget about doing homework and studying for tests and focus on having fun.
Students get a three-month break during the year to not think about school. The other nine months are filled with attending class, listening to lectures, reading books, writing research papers and taking tests.
This process is stressful during the regular 16-week semester; just imagine how bad it is during a six-week course.
Students might be able to get classes out of the way, but there is very little learned during summer courses.
Everything done during summer courses is quickly forgotten. Summer school is just a way for students to develop their short-term memory capacity.
Also, summer courses are rushed through so quickly. It is hard enough to learn math 70 in 16 weeks, so there is no benefit to cramming it into six weeks
Even when students do pass with an A or a B, two weeks after summer school is over, they won’t even remember the professor’s name.
Students need to get part-time summer jobs, have fun and forget about school.
A great adviser once said that this is the only time in our lives when we will truly be free.
Students should remember that after graduation, they will enter the work force where there is no such thing as a summer break.
For those considering slaving away over books and lecture notes, just remember what a man by the name of Alice Cooper once said, “School’s out for summer.”

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