Block scheduling vs 7 period day

Keilexandra
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:41:15 +0000

I attend a charter school with 7 rotating periods of varying lengths–the two morning periods are over an hour long each, while periods 6 and 7 are less than 30 minutes each. Supposedly it’s geared to teenagers’ attention span…it’s an interesting idea but screws makeup time when we miss one day of the week. If you missed a long period, the teacher rushes through the lesson so that you’ll keep up with the other sections.

I don’t know of any schools in our area that use block, but it seems to have its own pros/cons.