The Importance Of Block School Schedule

When I go to school I enjoy our 6 class-a-day schedule. It keeps me motivated to stay awake because having 55 minute class periods allows me to count down the minutes ‘till I get out of the darn class. Imagine having 90 minute class periods. I would fall asleep and not learn anything. The whole point of school is to learn. Schools should not have block schedules because it becomes harder to focus for long droning lessons, absences cause significant damage to grades when students can not catch back up, and teaching becomes segmented and hard to follow when teachers see their students so little every week. Even though the time periods are longer, lessons can be forgotten while trying to jam an hour and a half of another subject into students heads.
“The attention span of the average middle school student is 10 to 12 minutes, and there is little evidence that their brains can be trained to develop a longer span. So, direct instruction should be kept to no more than this span of time.” ( naesp.org ) Middle schoolers have a designated amount of time they can focus so I suggest teachers respect it by assuring that traditional scheduling is here to stay. 55 minutes is still a “long” time and I know that students are going to have an unsuccessful future in education if educators make classes