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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.

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?[/b] [/quote]

I answered this earlier. She has two classes with textbooks and workbooks. So for those alone, there are 4 books. So there ends up being 3 binders and four textbooks on that one day, plus her instrument and lunchbox. [/quote]

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