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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats OP—two great choices. Maybe consider the daily schedules and how that fits for your family. I have a kid at GDS so I only know their schedule. They are on a block schedule with 75 minute classes. HS starts at 8:45am—they have a class then community time, then another class, followed by lunch and two classes after lunch. After school sports /programs are optional. Many HS kids hang out in the forum or gym after school. The classes are every other day (so they don’t have homework assigned one day and due the next which is nice). GDS generally does not have homework over breaks. 
GDS has busses that drop off at school at 8am (lots of kids hang in the forum or library until 8:45am when school starts). The busses leave school around 3:40. You pay by the day so we always use the morning bus, and either use the afternoon bus or carpool home if staying for sports, drama, buddy program, etc. School closed around 8pm. [/quote]

Thank you, this is super helpful! [/quote]

That is a nice schedule [/quote]

Would love a Sidwell person to post their schedule too![/quote]

Sidwell uses the block schedule as well and has for several years.[/quote]

Block schedules are implemented in a variety of ways and these schools chose different approaches.

Sidwell’s Block schedule creates same schedule every week. It spreads classes out over the week, so you don’t have the same class 5 days but they mix the classes differently day by day. But Monday is always the same, Tuesday always the same ..etc.  For my DC Typically Monday has heaviest load . Friday tended to be a big load too.

The GDS block schedule has 8 periods - 4 on the even day (2,4,6,8) and 4 on the odd day (1,3,5,7) and it rotates - so Monday one week is even and would be odd the next.

Not sure if the difference matters much - I have never asked my kids about that  (although -I suppose it is harder to setup a regular midday appointment in a free period if sometime it’s on Monday and sometimes not) [/quote]

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