Educational Narrative

In my first educational narrative for GWRTC, my experience comes from the structure of my high school. My school operated on "block scheduling", which is very similar to the way colleges are set up. You would have four classes a semester, all 90 minutes long. When I first got to high school, I thought it was great: you only had four classes a day, and it didn't actually feel that long. I thought it would really prepare me for college, too. However, over time, I came to believe that this was not a good system. In my opinion, block scheduling isn't beneficial to anyone but the school district because it is essentially cramming everything in half the time (meaning that it saves money for the district because there can be more classes taught, less books purchased, etc.). Yes, the classes are longer, but there is only so much you can learn in an hour and a half. Everything had to go at a rapid pace. Often times, much of class was wasted because the lesson for the day finished earlier than 90 minutes allotted. Another drawback of block scheduling was the social aspect of it. I know that isn't the most important thing about school, but the social part of school definitely takes a back seat under block scheduling. The problem is that you meet many people in your first semester classes, but after January when the first semester ends, you don't get to see the people from your classes. Also, even though I am only about two weeks into my college courses, all of my classes run no longer than 50 minutes, so block scheduling really did not prepare me for that. Hopefully with this paper, I can take down block scheduling everywhere! Sike. But I can share my experience with a very flawed school system.