Anonymous wrote:Im the OP. Thank you to posters who said to look under bell schedule. That was the info I was looking for.

Can anyone tell me why some middle schools use a block schedule and others do not?

Some schools get additional funding to staff eight academic/elective classes. Without that, they have to have seven classes or class size drastically increases.

Anonymous wrote:Im the OP. Thank you to posters who said to look under bell schedule. That was the info I was looking for.

Can anyone tell me why some middle schools use a block schedule and others do not?

It was a fad twenty years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Im the OP. Thank you to posters who said to look under bell schedule. That was the info I was looking for.

Can anyone tell me why some middle schools use a block schedule and others do not?

Like so much in MCPS, it is simply not standardized and left to principal discretion.

This. And we’ve experienced it three different ways at this point.

Anonymous wrote:Im the OP. Thank you to posters who said to look under bell schedule. That was the info I was looking for.

Can anyone tell me why some middle schools use a block schedule and others do not?

Like so much in MCPS, it is simply not standardized and left to principal discretion.

Im the OP. Thank you to posters who said to look under bell schedule. That was the info I was looking for.

Can anyone tell me why some middle schools use a block schedule and others do not?

Ours is seven subjects every day. Three days a week, there is also an advisory period to provide time for kids to catch up on any missed work or get extra help.

Your middle school likely has a bell schedule somewhere on its website.

It depends if they follow an all period schedule or an odd/even schedule. It you post the school, someone can probably direct you to where it is on the school website.

Anonymous wrote:I just spent 20 minutes on a middle school website and could not figure out how many classes a day they have. Can you all help?

7 or 8
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an advisory period, other posters can tell you what waste of time this 20-30minutes, or search this forum - teachers and students
do not enjoy the advisory "lessons"

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Anonymous wrote:I just spent 20 minutes on a middle school website and could not figure out how many classes a day they have. Can you all help?

It should be linked under "Bell Schedule."

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Anonymous wrote:I just spent 20 minutes on a middle school website and could not figure out how many classes a day they have. Can you all help?

It should be linked under "Bell Schedule."

How would we know if we do not know the school? Even then, just call the school and ask.

Also, some schools do block schedules, so that also changes the number of periods a day. Which school?

Anonymous wrote:I just spent 20 minutes on a middle school website and could not figure out how many classes a day they have. Can you all help?

Do you mean how many periods or how many academic subjects? The former is usually 8 but can vary if the school uses block scheduling (and 8 includes PE and lunch). If you mean the latter, Everyone has English, World Studies, Math and Science, but the rest depend on whether the student is in a magnet program, language immersion or program where foreign language is required (vs. being an elective), etc.

You might have a better answer if you identified the school.

Seven or eight, depending on the school

I just spent 20 minutes on a middle school website and could not figure out how many classes a day they have. Can you all help?