<p>What schedule do you guys have, or, rather, how does your schedule work? </p>
<p>Also, which would you rather have?</p>
<p>My school has the block schedule. For those of you who don't know, block schedule is the same four or five classes for a whole semester. They are typically 90-100 minute long classes and we switch to whole new classes after the semester is over. I'm glad with the block schedule and I wouldn't want to switch it.</p>
<p>What about you guys?</p>
<p>I have a full-year schedule with only six classes (there is a 0 period and a 7th period, but only one class is offered for those; for 0, it’s Peer Resource, and for 7, it’s Marching Band). I’d much rather have a block schedule of any sort, especially since you can take more classes. </p>
<p>I have the Block Schedule but we don’t get new classes for the next semester, are we supposed to? Anyways ours last 90-100 minutes too and I enjoy having Block Schedule.</p>
<p>My school has regular schedule for three days and block schedule for two days. I am fine this arrangement because the regular schedule doesn’t get us students easily bored in our classes, but the block schedule enables us to do lengthy labs, projects, etc. </p>
<p>I have block scheduling and i LOVE IT. I only have 3 or 2 academic classes at once, and the rest are electives. Its a lot easier with less to focus on and i’m doing a lot better than i did in middle school. </p>
<p>My school had block scheduling when I went there. I think they switched to regular scheduling this year.
I like block scheduling more because it’s similar to the semester system in college, and I liked getting new classes halfway through the year. </p>
<p>Having the same thing all year can get boring, and changing things up is nice.</p>
<p>Full-year scheduler right here. Eight periods a day, but one is a mandatory lunch and homeroom period. Block scheduling’d be wonderful, if math wasn’t a graduation requirement (I can barely make it through 45 minutes a day, so kudos to anyone who sits through 90 minutes of it, even if it’s just a semester).</p>
<p>We go through twice the material in one day, and I think it’s worth it. If you take honors then it especially goes fast, and don’t even get me started on AP classes…</p>
<p>Our public schools use the block schedule. One of the problems with the block schedule in our area is that our students have lost many days of school because they closed for snow. Instead of losing just 1 class, it was like losing 2. This has been a major problem for students taking AP courses when last year they had about 12 snow days. Many times, the teachers are not able to cover all the material needed for the AP exams because of these snow days. Additionally, because of the block schedule, many times students finish their AP class in January, but the exam isn’t until May. If students have the course in Spring semester, they haven’t been in class long enough to cover all the material. Many of the students and parents are feeling it’s a lose - lose situation. Students not in AP courses generally seem to like it. </p>
<p>That’s weird because I’ve made 4’s and 5’s on my AP exams. xD</p>
<p>Our students average 62% passing rate (score of 3 or better) and 2.9 tests per test taker. I’m sure there are lots of factors involved however, when schools miss 12 block scheduled days in a year, that’s a LOT of school to miss!</p>
<p>My school has full-year classes, but follows a block schedule meaning that Monday and Thursday have only 4 of my classes for 100 minutes, and Tuesday and Friday I have the rest of my classes with Wednesday being a half-day.</p>
<p>It’s nice to not have the same classes one day after another. </p>
<p>We have full year classes with 9 periods a day. Lunch is required and study hall is required for freshman and sophomores. I personally prefer block</p>
<p>My school has full year. We take 8 classes but have six a day. There’s a 4 day rotation and each day we skip 2 classes.
Personally I think this is a great fit for me. I would never be able to do block scheduling and sit through 80-90 min a class even if I only had it for a semester. Also I enjoy not having a class I don’t like once every 4th school day</p>
<p>Full day.
3 classes
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4 more class</p>
<p>Fully year schedule for your core classes (math, science, english, history) and 3 open periods where you choose your classes. Most will choose a language class. Almost every grade has one period dedicated to Health/Fitness. For the other period, you can have it either block schedule (normally business classes or art courses) or full year class (so an extra AP class or science course etc. etc.).</p>
<p>So
Full Year for 4 periods
Open Choice for 3 periods
– 1 period will be a required class, all year
– 2 periods can be an elective, all year or half-year</p>
<p>I cringe at the thought of full-year schedules. </p>
<p>I have the block schedule and I prefer it to a traditional schedule. Even though some classes feel so long and dragging in a block schedule, I can’t imagine how you can get things done in a full year schedule, the classes feel so short. :(|) </p>