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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Block scheduling makes no sense from a learning perspective. A person can only absorb so much information from a lecture - maybe 30 minutes worth at most. In a math class, you could do practice problems for the next hour but you would probably lose focus doing that as well. But in a history class, the rest of the time becomes wasted time. Try it yourself - find an online class that runs for 1.5 hours and see how you manage to concentrate for that long. Even in universities, if the class is meant to be 2 hours long, they have a 10-15 minute break halfway through.

[b]Block learning essentially means your child is learning 1/2 the material that he or she would if there were 45 or 50 minute classes. [/b]

For the poster who says her kids backpack is too heavy already, how is that possible since FCPS doesn't use textbooks? [/quote]

Sorry nope. I teach university and I can tell you with  certainty that there is as much downtime in my four day a week classes as there is in my twice a week classes. The nice thing about longer sessions is you get to apply most levels of learning in one session--knowledge and application.

Your assumption here is that students only learn through active lecture instead of lecture followed by analysis and application.[/quote]

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