Block Schedule Would Help Students

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Neftaly Josue Perez in Op-Ed

Josue Perez
Crimson Chronicle Reporter

Since the beginning of the school year, there has been a lot of talk over the new bell schedule. People have said good and bad things about it, but I think that the bell schedule should be changed again.

At the beginning of the year, I thought that the new schedule would be great. I would finish my A-G Requirements faster and I could get extra classes like Video Production or Journalism that I would have fun with during my senior year.

But now, after half the year has gone by, I’ve come to hate this schedule.

It is a lot of work to maintain an A in seven classes, especially when you have to worry about AP classes as well. I don’t think our old schedule was the best either, though, because we didn’t have that extra class. I think it would be more beneficial to have a block schedule, like we have on those Tuesdays and Wednesdays when we get out early.

A block schedule would help any students only having to deal with three or four periods a day, which would mean a smaller workload each day. They would even have an extra day to complete homework for a class or some extra time to study for a test.

Teachers would benefit too, because they would be get more time in class in each period to cover more topics or dive deeper into a topic and help their students understand the material better.

With the block schedule, it is even possible to get an eighth class added to the schedule. Just like the seventh period that we have now, it would be an extra class that would help students finish their requirements faster and have optional classes that they would enjoy. The eighth class would even be used to even out the days, four classes one day and four classes the next.

With a block schedule, we could even bring back those fifteen minutes of homeroom that we all loved in mornings past.

The block schedule with eight classes may seem like a lot of work, but in practice, it could be pretty good for all of us. There is nothing wrong with an extra class, all it can do is benefit students. The extra class could be an AP or some type of life skills class that would benefit your transcript and make you look better when applying to college.