<p>My school just decided without notice to change our schedules from 9 periods to 12. Now instead of 40 minute class periods, we have only 30 minutes. Is this typical?</p>
<p>In addition, I've been automatically signed up for "advanced stem." From what I've gathered, this is a program to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in higher needs school districts. Does anyone else have this program at their school?</p>
<p>I have 6 classes, but only 3 in school with 1 online and 2 at the local university</p>
<p>I have 7 classes through school. I’m taking 2 online classes right now (just have to do the 2 finals), and I hope to have 2 during the school year.</p>
<p>I have 8 classes through school, but only 4 classes a semester so each class is about 1.5 hours long… We have a language program at our school (we offer french, spanish, and german 1-5, and also chinese, arabic and japanese but I dont think they go all the way to AP), and we also have a Career Technical Program so we offer classes like Auto-tech, Culinary Arts (cooking), Fashion Merchandising, Engineering, Sports Medicine, Business etc. And at my school you need 4 CTE (Career technical) credits, and 2 language credits to graduate. Luckily, a lot of normal electives are counted as CTE aswell I think, but after the 4 CTE credits, you still need 4 normal elective credits :(</p>
<p>8 periods at 47 minutes each, then lunch is a bit less than 30 minutes. 12 half-hour periods seems too short to get much done. Do some classes take up an hour block?</p>
<p>The shorter the class periods, the less you get done. :~l
I remember when we had 40 minute classes, by the time we were ready to start a lesson we’d have like 25 minutes…</p>
<p>Anyways, I have 7 classes (the lowest amount you can have, because I am a wizard) + community service = 8.</p>
<p>Yeah, I like my courses being 1 and a half hours long, I wouldn’t want 8 or 12 different teachers a day or anything like that. Even though I’m sure there’s a lot less homework per class, having 8 little assignments (each 10 minutes or something) for homework seems so tedious. I wouldn’t want a class any longer than I have now, but the time I spend in class gives so much time for labs/activities and more time for tests (sometimes in hard classes I take extra long on tests when I’m nervous about them).</p>
<p>It definitely is!</p>
<p>I think the best thing about longer classes is it’s more relaxed. With 40 minute classes we had teachers yelling at us to pay attention, and ended up wasting more time that way. With the classes in HS (which are…69 minutes, lol), it’s more like, the first 5-10 minutes can be used for chatting/a warm-up activity, then by the 15~20 minute mark you finally work your way into the main activity/lecture, and you might even get a few minutes at the end to start your homework. And there’s plenty of time to ask questions if you don’t understand, to arrange a meeting with the teacher, and sometimes we just get days where it’s like “okay, here’s your assignment, you have an hour, pair off with someone if you want, just get it done,” and off you go! </p>
<p>Can’t really pull that off in 40 minutes…I can’t even imagine 30. And I always felt so rushed and my brain was exhausted after having 5 straight classes, THEN lunch, then 3 MORE classes. I’d rather have 3 longer classes, then lunch, then 2 more and i’m home.</p>
<p>I have 7 classes, each are 50 minutes long.</p>
<p>We are required to take seven classes per year; our bell schedule rotates one class out every day, so we only have six classes per day (55 minutes each). Occasionally we have shorter periods, and twice a year we have block scheduling.</p>
<p>I have 8 classes + 1 lunch, but most people have 7 classes + 1 study hall + 1 lunch where I go.</p>
<p>I really hate my school… All the teachers in my AP classes say that there’s not enough time in a class period. And now its 25% shorter! </p>
<p>Last year in my APUS II. class, we didn’t even get to the Korean War when I took the AP test! Guess how good I did on that…</p>
<p>And we only have Spanish and French classes.</p>
<p>We have seven periods at my school at 55 minutes each. Also, lunch is a period.</p>
<p>7 classes spanning to an hour each in my school.</p>
<p>7 classes, 1 mandatory study hall period, and thirty minutes for lunch.</p>
<p>we have a rotating schedule with 7 classes, but we do 5 each day. 1 hour long each, except the block period is 2 hours (with a half hour lunch) it rotates so each day you have a different class long block!</p>
<p>We have six class periods an hour each. Lunch is 35 minutes.</p>
<p>Only thirty minutes of lunch yikes, I have forty five.</p>
<p>6 classes (I only have 5 academic classes + Tennis). Three classes each day, each are two hours. And lunch is like 45 minutes. But I have no idea how lunch became relevant to this topic.</p>
<p>In middle school we only had 20 for lunch! haha. so 30 minutes feels like an eternity</p>