Full year programs, such as band, chorus, yearbook, newspaper, agriculture, etc., are easier to accommodate. Both teachers and students experience greater variety of classes by meeting different classes each day. There is no reduction in the number of teacher preps. Larger gaps are produced when snow days occur or when long week-ends are in the calendar. There are no savings in textbook expenditures.
Students have limited opportunities for acceleration.
In most schools, the number of course choices for students remains the same. Students failing a course must continue to attend and have no opportunity to retake the class until summer school or the following fall. Obviously this is not an issue in schools having a low failure rate.