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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My junior regularly takes tests that are longer than 45 minutes.  The one year he had math in the daily 45 minute block, the tests were spread over 2 days.  Which fine, but really opens up even further opportunities for cheating which is already a problem.

For the AP classes that involve writing, it's impossible to do writing tasks as given on the AP test in 45 min.  Meaning if your exam is a DBQ or LEQ, when are you ever practicing these or being tested on this?  I wonder how HB handles this.

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Well how did the high schools handle this before block scheduling? It hasn't always been this way. [/quote]

1.  AP tests have changed.
2.  The number of APs offered and typical amount taken by students has dramatically increased.
3.  Back in “our day” the classes were often not just 45 minutes which isn’t very long.  I know in my high school it was 55 minute periods.

I think 45 is too short and 90 is too long.
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At my high school, we only took 6 classes at a time, not 7. So yes, about 55 min per class every day.  [/quote]
We had 9 period that were 45 minutes long, and they encouraged us to take an extra class instead of lunch because the school had additions and trailers so the lunchroom was too small and very overcrowded.  The extra classes made room to double up on electives, like taking two languages, extra science electives or choir+theatre or concert band+jazz band.  [b]We had tons of homework because there was never time to do work in class, like my kid does in APS[/b].[/quote]

This is why APS has block scheduling so they can have a low homework reality so kids can focus on sports. [/quote]
No it’s for “equity”[/quote]

Either way, sports or equity are not problems at HB, so they can afford to drop block. The neighborhood schools need the time in class to magically transform homework into class work.  [/quote]

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