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sneepity wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 1:19 pm

EwwPhysics wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 11:16 am

sneepity wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 11:03 am hmm I´m not complaining because now I don't have to wake up at 5:30 everyday
and I get to be more comfortable

What? You have to wake up at 5:30 for middle school? (Unless you’re a 9th grader in div B?)

junior high.
in high school Ill have to wake up at 4:30 because school starts at 6.

Yikes, my middle school starts at 8:15 and the high school starts 7:35 iirc...

sneepity wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 1:19 pm

EwwPhysics wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 11:16 am

sneepity wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 11:03 am hmm I´m not complaining because now I don't have to wake up at 5:30 everyday
and I get to be more comfortable

What? You have to wake up at 5:30 for middle school? (Unless you’re a 9th grader in div B?)

junior high.
in high school Ill have to wake up at 4:30 because school starts at 6.

oof

ig hopefully at least that means school ends pretty early for you guys

were y'all running on block scheduling? we have 4 blocks per day, each 88 minutes with alternating a/b days.

CookiePie1 wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 3:19 pm were y'all running on block scheduling? we have 4 blocks per day, each 88 minutes with alternating a/b days.

The high school I'm going to go to has a block schedule but it's 6 classes per day with a morning and afternoon rotation, rotating which two classes get dropped each day, so we have a/b/c/d days.

EwwPhysics wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 3:41 pm

CookiePie1 wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 3:19 pm were y'all running on block scheduling? we have 4 blocks per day, each 88 minutes with alternating a/b days.

The high school I'm going to go to has a block schedule but it's 6 classes per day with a morning and afternoon rotation, rotating which two classes get dropped each day, so we have a/b/c/d days.

My school has 7 classes a day, no rotation... I've always wondered: are block/rotation type schedules better than just a static schedule? Why do schools do them?

Creationist127 wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 4:06 pm

EwwPhysics wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 3:41 pm

CookiePie1 wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 3:19 pm were y'all running on block scheduling? we have 4 blocks per day, each 88 minutes with alternating a/b days.

The high school I'm going to go to has a block schedule but it's 6 classes per day with a morning and afternoon rotation, rotating which two classes get dropped each day, so we have a/b/c/d days.

My school has 7 classes a day, no rotation... I've always wondered: are block/rotation type schedules better than just a static schedule? Why do schools do them?

I guess the argument is that you can go more in depth in a subject each day without getting distracted, and less time is wasted on transitions? and maybe it can make you less stressed or more happy if you can have a day off of your least interesting class (even though you have to spend longer on the other days, but maybe it seems like less for psychological reasons?) Personally, I'm neutral because I haven't experienced the block schedule yet.

Creationist could you please check our team doc?

Lucky peeps, 8 classes a day, 55 minute classes. Expectation to do extra-curricular activities for our advanced program at school, so like add another 1-2 hours a day usually. Easy days for you all!

Besides that school starts at 7:30, but my bus comes 50 minutes before that.

EwwPhysics wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 4:13 pm

Creationist127 wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 4:06 pm

EwwPhysics wrote: ↑April 18th, 2020, 3:41 pm

The high school I'm going to go to has a block schedule but it's 6 classes per day with a morning and afternoon rotation, rotating which two classes get dropped each day, so we have a/b/c/d days.

My school has 7 classes a day, no rotation... I've always wondered: are block/rotation type schedules better than just a static schedule? Why do schools do them?

I guess the argument is that you can go more in depth in a subject each day without getting distracted, and less time is wasted on transitions? and maybe it can make you less stressed or more happy if you can have a day off of your least interesting class (even though you have to spend longer on the other days, but maybe it seems like less for psychological reasons?) Personally, I'm neutral because I haven't experienced the block schedule yet.

I've experienced block scheduling(for state testing) at a middle school that usually had each class each day, and I personally dislike it because with non-block schedules the transitions are nice times to clear your head after you're done stressing about a test and for classes you don't like you can kind of mentally go "Only ___ more minutes before I am out of here." I've also heard from friends(my home high school block schedules) it can mess with deadlines? Like your art teacher says a deadline is coming up and supplies will only be available until Thursday or something and some classes get two periods to work and some classes only get one.

EDIT: I seem to hate commas lately.

We have four classes per day, but our schedule is very strange. The first three classes of the day are an hour and a half (thereabouts), but after the third class we have a 45 ish minute study hall. After that, we have a short class that's closer to 55 minutes in length. We have a block schedule with a/b days for every class except the final class of the day, which we have every day but Friday. On Fridays we do a special kind of punishment known as Fast Fridays, where we have all six of our normal classes, but for shorter periods of time so that we can have each class for the same amount of time each week. The class lengths I have here might not be exact, though. I time my classes by when the bell rings, not how long the class actually takes.

Being a freshman here was fun.