Block Scheduling is Horrible
Dad reports:
So the high school uses block scheduling. This means Tommy’s classes are an hour and a half long. The premise is that for half the year you get really intense English. Then the next half of the year you won’t have English but will have really intense math. I contend that for a class like a foreign language this would be great. Lab classes like chemistry could take great advantage of block scheduling. However, fundamentals like math I don’t see effectively fitting into a block scheduling. Math needs to be constantly practiced, not crammed in half year blocks of knowledge. Also, the brain turns off after so much and an hour and a half is too long for math for regular students much less an Aspergers child. Now thrown in a class that is an hour and a half long that Tommy either doesn’t like the material, the teacher or the students and its a formula for disaster.