<p>My school has eight periods and I love it. There’s more room for fun electives in addition to the AP and IB classes. Though I get two nights worth of homework in each class, so the workload is about the same. Going to every class every day seems so hard now.</p>
<p>I think I would hate block scheduling. This year I have a two hour class everyday, and I don’t really like those. Too long. Chem for two hours is okay, but physics seems interminable. And I had math and french classes during first semester which were about 3 hours each. That was awful.</p>
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<p>At my school, freshman take only 6 classes out of the 8 periods offered… so we get 1 study hall and 1 free period where we can do homework, or chill with friends (we have a hangout area [not officially called that], but we don’t have out in the hall). So that’s like an hour and a half of homework you can get done.</p>
<p>Sophomores usually take 7 classes, Juniors take 7-8 classes, and Seniors can take 5-8 classes.</p>
<p>block scheduling is only cool if your teachers don’t psychotically assign you workload that ends up in all nighters, every night.</p>
<p>and maybe this is just me, but block scheduling seems to give teachers more of a reason to schedule massive amounts of tests and quizzes during the very last week of the quarter and unlike nonblock schedules, since they can’t spread out the assignments (because there are separate days in block period), they end up lumping them together with the other fifty tests/quizzes students have to take in other classes. i’ve had to take a dozen quiz/tests (count for the same amount) in a week because of this</p>
<p>I’m jealous of block schedules. I know someone who has 4 classes each day for 1 semester (Sept-Jan, Jan-June) for 90 minutes each. They even have a gym requirement (maybe 1 or 2 classes in their HS career). That means you’d have 3 classes each day with a 90 minute recess thrown in there. And I bet block schedules get just as much homework as I get in one class. Ugh!</p>
<p>But it’s an awful way to learn - you can’t expect to learn Spanish I 1st semester Frosh year and then remember it for Spanish 2 2nd semester Soph year. You get behind if you miss a class. There’s no reinforcement of material which would hurt for math. You basically do 2 sections a day I would guess, then have homework, then have to go back 2 sections the day after to cover it on your homework.</p>
<p>Anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, We have 7 classes a day, 45 mins each. No study halls unless you take a .3 elective (not a choice till Junior year. EG: SAT English, where I get 2 days a week study hall). Senior year I have a resource period every day (basically a study hall) for the 1st semester, then another .3 for the 2nd semester. Kids at my local public school would have 3 study halls a day.</p>
<p>My school’s block schedule is periods 1, 3, and 5 on Monday/Thursday, periods 2, 4, 6 on Tuesday/Friday, and all six classes on Wednesday. Each block is an hour and 45 minutes.</p>
<p>When I first started high school, I thought I’d hate block schedule, but I love my block days more than I like Wednesdays. We get so much more done in class (mostly because my teachers somehow don’t know how to use the 50 minute period every Wednesday) and I get two days to do my homework. </p>
<p>Also, it’s really nice for lab science classes because we don’t have to rush through labs, since we get all period long.</p>
<p>Same for tests. We get a whole period to do one test, although yeah that does mean the test is longer, it also means I can miss more and still do okay :)</p>
<p>Personally, I HATE block-scheduling.
I go to a TERRIBLE school in OK that does this. There are pros and cons in block-scheduling, more cons. I like how you can double up in math or science if you need to (I tripled up in math this year. lol).
Of course, we do four 120 minute classes for a semester, and the boring ones drag on FOREVER, and we don’t have AP classes or anything, other than the terrible AP English classes that aren’t even that good. So, that further deepens my hatred. And also, if you’re in a sport, that takes up one of your spots as well. It is so difficult to try and schedule your classes!</p>
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<p>Not all Block scheduling is like that. At my school, you take different classes every other day for 85 minutes. Core classes (math, english, language, etc). you take all 3 trimesters. most electives are for 1 trimester, but some are for 2 or even all year. So for me, Spanish I is all year freshman year, but every other day.</p>