Over the years block scheduling has become more common in schools around the country. The outcome that has come from this is big and different for every school. However the positive changes are there. Schools that have adopted the block schedule came with many benefits, such as relieving stress, providing more in depth learning, as well as improving students performance .
Block scheduling relieves many stresses that a typically six, or seven day period gives.Firstly, “If you follow a student over the course of the school day, you’d see that they are exhausted.The entire education system has created a pressure cooker.” says Pope.(“Are block Scheduling the Stress-buster the Students need?”) Students become more stress as the day goes by, because they have so many subjects to worry about in the course of one day. Secondly getting rid of the old schedule and adopting the block schedule will help lower the stress greatly. Finally students wouldn’t be stress or as exhausted when they come to class since there are fewer in the day.Schools that adopt the block schedule, help students by creating a less stressful environment, allowing them to work better. Having a long period can allow teachers to take their lessons in further depth, and allow students to get more time to get help. With the …show more content…
From relieving stress, or providing more of a in depth learning, even affecting the students performances, schools who have change to block scheduling have benefited greatly. While many people fear the change, many can’t argue that having fewer classes to defuse all the stress, longer class periods to help students, have shown that students have a had more courses completed and less behavioral issues. Finally, without a doubt though the change to the block schedule has proved that they are more useful and better than the old seven day