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How would your dd's backpack be affected?  There are no more textbooks.  At most it would be some notebooks.  Could get a binder with dividers.

One of my DDs friends went to a middle school that was AB (all classes) AB.  So every Wed they had all classes except advisory.  Maybe more schools could consider this.  I too find that it makes for less learning because the kids can't be taught for 1.25 hours.  And also if they are sick it is a mess[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but my kids have different materials that they need to bring to different classes.  They change out their Odd and even day binders/inner bags based on the classes they have that day.[/quote]

Basically this. DD has separate binders for each of her classes (required), with each binder having different sections. She also has textbooks and workbooks in two classes, so just for those, there are 4 books plus two binders.

My understanding is that [b]the kids aren't taught for the entirety of the block[/b]. They are taught, then given problems or other materials to see if they understood what was taught, which is then gone over. They also go over quizzes, tests, and homework, so the additional time allotment is useful. In classes involving writing, they have essentially moved to all assessments being done in class. Too many kids cheating, made much, much worse with AI help. Also helped by longer classes.

As it is, DD can have 3 tests on a given day. She will be mortified if she ends up with even more, which can happen with the every class every day model.[/quote]

Exactly.  Under the block schedule, [b]students ultimately get less school. [/b] We are purposefully shortchanging our kids.

Why?  Why are they not allowed to get as much school as we did?  Why do they not deserve to learn as much as we did?[/quote]

[b]If there is downtime in a block schedule, then there will be downtime in an every day schedule. This is reality.[/b]

Our kids are getting just as much schooling as we did. It is nonsense to think otherwise just because it is different than how we were educated.

And as a PP said, it also helps prepare for college learning. And it certainly helps manage the homework load.[/quote]

Ask some longtime teachers.  They don't get through as much material under the block scheduling.  Children cannot learn for 90 minutes but they can learn for 45 minutes.

As for preparing for college - no.  Middle schoolers don't need to prepare for college.  Neither do many high school kids.  Maturity takes time. High school kids aren't ready for college, so we don't need to treat them like they are.  [/quote]

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