Smarter Balanced Testing Schedule

Posted on May 1, 2014 by in Op-Ed

Chronicle Reporters

Abril Chuvac

Leslie Gracia

The Smarter Balanced Testing schedule has some good and bad sides to it. Having a blocked schedule gives students the opportunity of having a class every other day. Students get more time to finish homework they did not understand or that they just left for last minute. Some of us get to catch up with the classes we fell behind in.

Even though a block schedule does help us out with homework assignments there are other things about it that are not very pleasing. I do not like the fact that we have to spend about an hour and thirty minutes in one single class. It makes the classes seem like they go on forever. It is hard to go from an all period schedule to a block schedule because it makes things confusing, especially when having classes that are not in chronological order.The only class that we have every single day is fourth period. How is it possible to go from second period to sixth and seventh period and at the end of the day go back to fourth period? It is just makes things complicated.

 

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