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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids loved block scheduling. They went to a secondary school so they had block from 7-12. They enjoyed not having homework in every class every day, enjoyed only focusing on a few classes a day, and having more days between classes to finish assignments. [/quote]

Right?  And they like dessert with every meal too.

We don't do things because kids like them, or because they are convenient for adults, we do them because they are best for kids.  Or at least, we should.  [/quote]

How on earth is block scheduling where there is more time to focus on the subject every other day remotely equivalent to dessert, which is an extra treat?  Many teachers strongly prefer teaching in the block models and feel it’s better for students. [/quote]

Obviously many educators prefer block scheduling, that's why FCPS has it.  [b]That doesn't mean it's the best way for students to learn. [/b][/quote]

Prove this.

It's much more proven that outsourcing the teaching of grammar to Lexia for elementary kids is harmful. Can we change that first since it's shown in study after study?[/quote]

Consider when your child (or you) learns something - swimming lessons, riding a bike, music lessons, a foreign language, anything.  Taking a lesson once a week is a very slow way to learn a skill.  Taking two or three lessons a week is better, but often children need to swim every day before they actually learn to swim.  The music instructor will tell parents that it's better to practice for 5-10 minutes 5 times a week rather than for an hour on the weekend.  Daily sports practice is what the best athletes do.  Etc.  Our brains learn best by doing something every day, not two or three times a week.  This is intuitive when we think of skills.  Why is it hard to believe about school?[/quote]

My kid takes pitching lessons. She has a lesson every other week. She practices >4x/week (out of season and in). In traditional schooling models class is a lesson and homework is the practice. Or at least this is true in MS/HS - less so in ES, but even then it can work in the upper ES grades.[/quote]

Uh, kids with block scheduling are not doing math homework every night.  They do it every other night.  That's exactly the problem.[/quote]

Well the other problem is the math curriculum in FCPS is absolutely garbage.[/quote]

No, they assign more work so it often takes 2 nights to do it. [/quote]

Not for my MSer.  Minimal math homework one or two nights a week, maybe.  [/quote]

Class either meets twice or 3 times a week so once a week isn’t even possible. Liar. [/quote]

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