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Okay, don't know about you guys, but our school starts at 8:45, finishes at 3:30. We get a 20 minute break and an hour for lunch. Decent, you might think. Well, not exactly.
Let's have some calculation here.
I dont know a single teacher that instead of letting you go at the bell, takes the bell as a time to pack up, wait for everyone to quiet down, stand up, tell us how we've done, then lets us push off. That's an average of 5 minutes every lesson. So if we have 2 breaks thats 50 minutes gone a week.
Detentions, of course. The average is 10 minutes for me, I never do much beyond talking. Maybe twice a week. Another 20 gone.
Getting to where you want to be in our massive school: 5-7 minutes each break. thats around 60 minutes gone.
Going to see teachers about work: This is a big one. The homework they give us is so friggin hard, and they insist on us coming to see them in our own time to talk to them about it, instead of in the lesson when it's meant to be. I must waste about 60 minutes every week on this...
Obviously theres more little things, but if we have 1 hr 20 mins a day, so 6 hrrs 40 minutes break a week, in all actuality we get 3 hrs 50... Anyone agree with me here?
01-19-2009 06:29 AM
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pssh I have another hour and 30 minutes of school than you.
01-19-2009 06:54 AM
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Wow, just goes to show, one school near where I live start an hour later and finish an hour later than us...
01-19-2009 07:10 AM
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wow - i never actually bothered to work that out before. but you're right. and we also get kept behind inbetween lessons because the teacher before didnt let us off on time and we were late.
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Wow thats weird
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I though we already had a thread for school schedules, but whatever.
So let's see...

doors open at 8:30
first class: 8:40 to 9:54
first break: 9:54 to 10:16
2nd class: 10:16 to 11:30
2nd break: 11:30 to 11:36
third class: 11:36 to 12:50
lunch break: 12:50 to 13:45
last class: 13:45 to 14:59

What bothers me the most though, is that even though the class periods here are ridiculously long (1 hour, 14 minutes), some teachers still can't fit it all in, and sometimes keep going past the bell...

And what's the point of having such a long break between the first two classes... If this whole "extended classes" experiment leaves so much negative space in the timetable, maybe just let us out at 2:45?
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