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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher.  Learning to teach blocks was hard.  Takes a lot of creativity to keep them engaged and keep it moving, and it’s important to do so- 90 minutes is long. As a parent, there are advantages and disadvantages to both.  Would love math and language every day.  Also like that my kid can focus on homework and prep for 3-4 classes a day instead of 7.  I think I could go back, but I do wish we’d pick a lane. [/quote]

You supposed to give them time to do class work so there is no homework. [/quote]In my experience this seems to result in kids doing a lot more self teaching.  I had daily 45 minute classes and the teachers would instruct for pretty much all of every class.  We then did practice at home as homework.  With block scheduling, it seems that teachers only offer instruction for the same 45 minutes or so every class, even with a 90 minute block, because that's as long as kids can focus.  So then kids use the second half of the block to do homework.  But since classes are only every other day, kids then end up learning missed content from YouTube or other videos and websites.  It seems like a really flawed model.  My kid has come home so many times with math that she says the teacher never showed them how to do.  That never happened when I was a kid.  The homework matched the lesson.[/quote]

This starts in kindergarten all the way to 12th grade. If you're not sped, you get a fraction of time with the teacher, which means it's up to the student to be mature enough to study by themselves. A lot of good students end up becoming slackers through no fault of their own.[/quote]

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