How Schools are Structured

How schools are structured, can play a big part in how a students success plays out. It depends if you have a school where you are able to go all year long and have shorter breaks in between or if you have a school that is more traditional and only goes 9 months out of the year with a 3 month break. It all depends. Also another part is the idea of block scheduling or if you have more classes that are shorter or longer ones and have fewer per day or semester or trimester. All of these parts play into a students success. In my high school we had traditional school year and no block scheduling. You would have 3 months off for summer break and you would have about 5 or 6 classes a day for about an hour and 15 minutes to an hour and a half. And if you had lunch at a certain time your class would get split into two parts with lunch in between. I hated that, once you get going or started on a lesson plan you would get dismissed for lunch and have to come back. I think that if you were to schedule a school it should be block scheduling with more time on fewer classes. That way teachers are able to get more done during one class period then having to drag it into the following one. It gives students more time to work on homework and ask adequate questions if needed. It is more flexible then with the time. And it is hard to have 3 months off you do miss a lot of things that you have learned from the previous year, and a lot more time is spent on review, but i am not sure that having 2 or 3 weeks off at a time is something that i would want to have to work with either. Maybe something like you only have 2 months off for summer and have a longer winter break or a little bit longer spring break. All of these seem to be better then going to school all year long.