<p>my high school was a seven class per day school with one lunch period for each kid (they are randomly assigned) and six minute passing periods. (i heard they changed it to ten this year and extended classes from 45 to 50 minutes). My school, however was what many dub as a “bad school” because of the sporadic fights in the hallway. still, there were the people that tried and the people that didn’t try and both of our kinds did not over-stress about school. I am sure that if any teacher started to do that group idea or any of those things, my friends and I would have ended up talking laughing and throwing paper balls at each other instead of doing the “reading”. At least during the lecture we had to keep quiet. We had a couple of teachers and subs we didn’t like, and we would all (all as in more than the majority of the class) would start sneezing or coughing or tapping pencils, or just ignoring the teacher. Teachers suffer, too, and the strategies presented in that article probably only work for schools where there are already kids that are dedicated to doing their work.</p>