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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much of a 90 minute class is wasted time. You can't absorb 90 minutes of a math lesson at once, for example. Much easier for teachers and students to learn one concept, go home and practice it, and return the next day for another concept. Teachers know this - that's why my kids report the last 30 minutes of many classes is devoted to chatting with friends, watching movies on school issued laptop etc. Utter waste.[/quote]

Did you ever have a 90 minute math lesson? I did. Went to TJ in the 90s and we had Monday anchor days and block scheduling Tues-Fri, like OP is describing. I loved block days and hated anchor days. You can sort of do a flipped classroom without the flipping with block scheduling. Either practice than lecture or lecture than practice. Of course nobody had a laptop to distract them back then.

OP the point of the anchor Monday is so your kid doesn't forget whether Monday is odd or even or whatever your school calls it. Every week has the same classes on each week day. It's easy. My kid is at a school with block scheduling where the Mondays alternate and I am dreading it. When you need a calendar to keep track of what classes you have when, the school has gone too far.[/quote]

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