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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please explain the point of this, other than to prevent parents from pulling their kids from school on Mondays? It sometimes takes my kid 10 minutes just to get to their next class at the other end of tha school building; what is the point of a 20 minute class?[/quote]

:roll: no class is 20 minutes on an anchor day.

Anchor days are great for consistency. If Monday is an anchor day, then every Tuesday/Thursday is an odd day and every Wednesday/Friday is an even day. No need to pull up the odd/even calendar every time you try to make an appointment. You just know exactly what days each week are odd and even and it doesn't change. The other benefit is so that if there's a snow day, when you return, you can pivot to an anchor day to keep endingy on track if needed. Missed only an odd day for snow? FCPS decides to give you a day off for the primary? The day kids return, have an anchor day instead of an even day and then restart with your odd/even cycle. Everyone stays on track.

I used to work at a school that did three seven period days and only two block days. It was great. But ultimately, science complained that it wasn't enough time for experiments so then it became every day blocked. Math and foreign language heavily prefer shorter periods that meet daily rather than this every other day nonsense. [/quote]

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