1-17-13 assignment

The eight period school schedule is not nearly as productive as the four period school day.

Students aren't allowed to express their individuality through their ideas and answers on subjects and problems. Schools with eight period schedules do no allow students to give their own answers due to the shortened learning time, only the ones that already exist. Schools only worry about getting good test scores so that they look good. On tests, students are either given one correct answer or "multiple choice", not always being able to give their own opinion, and in effect show their individuality (Book cover).

Students do not get enough time in each class to ask questions or to complete homework. In the eight period school day, any class that is not a block class is only "forty-five minutes" long, barely giving students time enough to complete class assignment or to ask questions on that days subject (High school bell schedule).

Students do not learn at the same rate. With a four period schedule, students have sufficient time to learn that days subject, while in an eight period schedule they do not have enough time to learn the same subject in non-block classes, giving them less time to learn in that class. And the schools agenda makes "individual learn in a setting in which individual needs are subordinated to group interests" (Postman, Neil. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School. New York: Knopf, 1995.).

As a result of the shortened class time, students loose their individuality for opinions they give, they don't get nearly enough time in classes, and those with non-block classes fall behind of those that do.