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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other issue is they are supposed to have anchor days once a week (all classes 45 min) however since they so rarely have a full week of school (I believe last week was only the 2nd one all school year), they never have anchor days.  So the current system is not operating as designed because APS has added so many random days off.

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Our parent experience at DHMS is that the anchor days were very disruptive. They actually were the topic of many student complaints, with my student complaining that his teachers seemed very grump on anchor days. ; ) They even wrote the superintendent about it.

I can see where block scheduling is great for something like english or science where there's a lesson and then implementation, like a lesson and then a lab or a lesson and then writing. Both can get done on the same day. But it also seems that the blocks are way too long for things like health/PE. It's also been our experience that our student's one anchor class has been his foreign language elective these last two years. I do think that having that language access everyday has been more helpful than the every other day schedule with the blocks.

However, what I'd like to hear is the teachers'\ position on this issue. I think a lot of the mental health and learning slide issues we have seen are as much because we have sh-t on our teachers and it's rolled down to our students as they are because of all the other external factors (tech, social media, covid, mental health...). [/quote]

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