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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With generational rise in ADHD, fatigued teachers unlikely to develop the project based, hands on work that best suits it — why are more high schools going to block schedule.

My impression at our local Arlington high school is the teachers teacher for 40 min, then have the kids do classwork/homework quietly for the next 40 minutes. I feel like they are squandering instruction time; they can leave homework for home.

Do other schools make better use of block scheduling?! Why are so many schools following it, including many privates. [/quote]

This isn’t how block scheduling is supposed to work.  It’s not meant to be 40 min instruction/50 min homework time.  That is insane and I’d be upset as a parent.  Block classes are 90 min because they are supposed to learning an entire year’s worth of content in half the time (one semester).  In a traditional 7 period schedule, each class is 40-50 min but you take it for two semesters. If your kid is only getting 40 min of instruction in a block schedule class, they aren’t going to get through all the material in one semester.  That is doing them a disservice.  You’re right, homework is meant to be done at home, instruction is meant to be in class.  [/quote]

Who made you the homework police?  I'm a teacher, and this is just your opinion, and a pretty outdated one at that.[/quote]

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