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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b]I teach university[/b] 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]

Do you have children?  Do you really think that high school and middle school students are equivalent to college students and should be treated the same way, that the same should be expected of them?

How bizarre.[/quote]

So do y’all want schools to prep students for university or not? [/quote]

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