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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are kids doing so poorly now?  It isn’t block scheduling, it is a lack of discipline, time management, catering to the [b]educational fad of the day[/b], and getting away from core curriculum that all contribute to the challenges faced today.[/quote]
Going back to all classes everyday will eventually cycle back to the next trend and FCPS will adopt it and claim that block schedule was a bad idea all along.[/quote]

Block scheduling has been around in US public schools for at least 50 years so not really a "trend"--it's just another standard way of organizing class schedules.  I had block scheduling in my own high school eons ago.  Both daily class meetings and block meetings have pros and cons.  In general, you get more instructional time with block scheduling because there is less transition time between classes and the time spent getting 30 people to settle in and then pack up represents a smaller portion of the overall instruction time.  Whether the longer time period is more productive is a matter of teaching skill and student readiness, but there is more instruction time.

I think the earlier poster's idea of an "anchor day" of a Monday where you have all your classes and then 4 block days sounds like a potentially good option--in part because then you wouldn't have the ever-switching schedule and the Monday back from the weekend would be faster-paced to get people energized.[/quote]

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