Year round School

Year round School

Over 3,000 schools had year-round education programs last year. That's less than four percent of all schools, but it's four times the number of students in year-round schools 10 years ago.Personally I don't think a student can handle the stress of a year round school, especially in high school.I understand that we will be learning less but the schools are offering more ways to learn and get ahead without eliminating summer vacation.Some would argue that eliminating summer vacation would make it less stressful for the parent especially if both parents work during the summer.The parents need a babysitter or send there child to daycare while they work.I'm pretty sure that school is supposed to be based around the kids and there education.Year round school is starting to spread all over the country very quickly.Most are against year round school, some are for year round, which one are you?

Andy S

US Military Deployment

     The U.S. is currently deploying troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but tin the last fiew month the pentagon decided to cancel a last minute decision on deploying 3,500 troops.The military is trying to drawdown the number of troops in Iraq. The 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division will not replace a North Carolina National Guard unit already in Iraq, Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh told CNN. The 3,500-troop combat team, based in Fort Drum, New York, was to leave in January.The National Guard unit is still on schedule to return home, which will speed up the drawdown of forces.The troop withdrawal in Iraq coincides with a debate in the Obama administration on whether to send as many as 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. 

Current news

• As of Friday, 250 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year, according to a CNN tally based on Pentagon numbers. 
• Four soldiers were killed and 10 people, including civilians and security forces, were wounded when a bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint exploded in Falluja, an Anbar province town. 
• In Anbar a suicide truck bomb hit a police checkpoint on a bridge west of Ramadi, wounding a police officer. The blast damaged the bridge, which carries a highway linking Iraq with Jordan and Syria. Traffic had to be rerouted to an another road. 
• President Obama has said the combat mission in Iraq will cease for U.S. troops at the end of 2010, and all American forces will be withdrawn by the end of 2011. There are 112,000 U.S. troops there now.