What I wish I knew….So my kid is now experiencing their 4th schedule in 4 years. Yet another new one this year. Currently, the students have longer class periods with specific courses on different days.
Our experience has been that the efficacy and stress of it will depend on the teacher/course. Frankly, I would prefer that my student has foreign language every day. The other problem is that some teachers have piled on homework for 2 days instead of one. They don’t realize that on the “off day” when students are not in their class, they actually have other classes! So it must be that teachers think, “Oh - you have two whole days to read and annotate 40 pages of Walt Whitman and prepare for an in-class essay.” Many students are getting slammed with this new schedule. Not to worry, however, chances are the administration will think of another one by the time you arrive next September! 