I am a part time student at Legend. Most of my classes are taken at Arapahoe Community College, which is a fairly long commute from Parker. The best way my parents and I have found to keep me as long as I need to at both schools and lessen the drives is to take my Legend classes during 1st and 2nd period, leaving part of the morning and all of the afternoon free to take the ACC classes I need. My mom and I sat down and were looking at the 7 block schedule, and we found that my entire mornings would be taken out by the proposed late start and advisement period on Thursdays. The earliest class I could take at ACC would be 1:30, which only leaves the equivalent of two class periods to take my classes in. This would mean that it would be possible for me to not be able to graduate with my classmates from ACC, and I would be barely graduating from Legend with my class, provided that the classes I need to take to graduate from Legend will be available during those two periods. I realize that I do not represent the majority of the student population, but the few of us at the ends of the bell curve would like to be heard.
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Erica Hoppe
12 years ago
Although I am a senior and the schedule change will not alter my course in any way, I do see difficulties for future students that I dont want to happen unnecessarily. I am currently in 3 ap classes, this requires hours upon hours of studying, doing homework, writing labs etc. I have two off periods, on in the morning and one at the end of the day. I tend to stay up until very early hours in the morning finishing my work. That extra hour and a half of sleep makes my life easier considering I normally only get 3 or 4 hours anyways. Obviously there are educational upsides to keeping the block schedule, but there are also medical benifits. From what I have experienced, it helps me with getting slightly more adequate hours of sleep. The hour and a half after school continues to help with my studying, 3 days a week I have clubs that I go to.between lunch and club, I can get countless hours of work done very quickly. please, for the sake of future students, keep the block schedule.
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Jake Bailey
12 years ago
I'm an AVID student and now my AVID class has gone from an advantage to a disadvantage. AVID may be a huge help but it does take up one of my electives. Now I'm left with only a single elective opportunity going into sophomore year. I already made a commitment to another elective which I can't go back on which now leaves me with no electives. This is especially an issue since I've been taking my first two years to find an interest to build on. An interest that I was planning on expanding on in the next two years. Now I'm left with no elective choice and messed up plans. And this is only a personal issue. There's also the topic of how we would have extremely short classes which gives teachers a huge opportunity to send unfinished classwork home and adds to the students stress levels. I see the cons far outweighing the pros in the decision.
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Gillian Merritts
12 years ago
As students, we understand that changing the schedule would benefit teachers greatly. One less unpaid class to teach, less papers to grade, and a less complicated day to keep up with. It's fantastic for teachers, however school isn't about the well being of them. Along with those pros comes a countless number of cons for the students. I'm sure the other comments have covered the majority of those cons. I, as well as a lot of other freshman and sophomores need the first few years of high school to find their interests, and the new schedule makes that much more difficult with only 7 classes. This isn't looking too good for future students planning on going to college. Personally, I am in the class AVID, which takes up an elective spot. Leaving me with just 1 elective class to choose. Overall, high school is supposed to help students eventually make it to college, and this new schedule change is making that goal more difficult than it needs to be. School is for students, not teachers.
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Ella P
12 years ago
I feel the block schedule has bee very helpful. The students have more time to complete the homework they were assigned. We have less stress on our shoulders and we are more prepared for college. Also, being a current athlete at Legend, I don't have time for homework. I practice every day and when I get home I just want to sleep. I would rather get done the amount of homework that I get in four classes than the amount of homework that I get in seven. Lastly, I was very excited to be apart of all the classes I signed up for next year. I will be very sad if I have to drop two because I am sure they are wonderful.
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Rachel B
12 years ago
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Having the block schedule was easy to do and gives low levels of stress. it helps a lot durning band season as I attend at Legend than at Cherry Creek High school were it was 8 classes per day. it is better to have a block schedule than any other thing
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Ryan Moos
12 years ago
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I agree that we should keep the block schedule. It not only gives students two days to do our work and gives us longer time in class during one session. This is also hurting me personally because I had to choose between either dropping a class that I really wanted to take or dropping my only off period. So in short, I will not have an off period if this change takes place.
I am a part time student at Legend. Most of my classes are taken at Arapahoe Community College, which is a fairly long commute from Parker. The best way my parents and I have found to keep me as long as I need to at both schools and lessen the drives is to take my Legend classes during 1st and 2nd period, leaving part of the morning and all of the afternoon free to take the ACC classes I need. My mom and I sat down and were looking at the 7 block schedule, and we found that my entire mornings would be taken out by the proposed late start and advisement period on Thursdays. The earliest class I could take at ACC would be 1:30, which only leaves the equivalent of two class periods to take my classes in. This would mean that it would be possible for me to not be able to graduate with my classmates from ACC, and I would be barely graduating from Legend with my class, provided that the classes I need to take to graduate from Legend will be available during those two periods. I realize that I do not represent the majority of the student population, but the few of us at the ends of the bell curve would like to be heard.
Although I am a senior and the schedule change will not alter my course in any way, I do see difficulties for future students that I dont want to happen unnecessarily. I am currently in 3 ap classes, this requires hours upon hours of studying, doing homework, writing labs etc. I have two off periods, on in the morning and one at the end of the day. I tend to stay up until very early hours in the morning finishing my work. That extra hour and a half of sleep makes my life easier considering I normally only get 3 or 4 hours anyways. Obviously there are educational upsides to keeping the block schedule, but there are also medical benifits. From what I have experienced, it helps me with getting slightly more adequate hours of sleep. The hour and a half after school continues to help with my studying, 3 days a week I have clubs that I go to.between lunch and club, I can get countless hours of work done very quickly. please, for the sake of future students, keep the block schedule.
I'm an AVID student and now my AVID class has gone from an advantage to a disadvantage. AVID may be a huge help but it does take up one of my electives. Now I'm left with only a single elective opportunity going into sophomore year. I already made a commitment to another elective which I can't go back on which now leaves me with no electives. This is especially an issue since I've been taking my first two years to find an interest to build on. An interest that I was planning on expanding on in the next two years. Now I'm left with no elective choice and messed up plans. And this is only a personal issue. There's also the topic of how we would have extremely short classes which gives teachers a huge opportunity to send unfinished classwork home and adds to the students stress levels. I see the cons far outweighing the pros in the decision.
As students, we understand that changing the schedule would benefit teachers greatly. One less unpaid class to teach, less papers to grade, and a less complicated day to keep up with. It's fantastic for teachers, however school isn't about the well being of them. Along with those pros comes a countless number of cons for the students. I'm sure the other comments have covered the majority of those cons. I, as well as a lot of other freshman and sophomores need the first few years of high school to find their interests, and the new schedule makes that much more difficult with only 7 classes. This isn't looking too good for future students planning on going to college. Personally, I am in the class AVID, which takes up an elective spot. Leaving me with just 1 elective class to choose. Overall, high school is supposed to help students eventually make it to college, and this new schedule change is making that goal more difficult than it needs to be. School is for students, not teachers.
I feel the block schedule has bee very helpful. The students have more time to complete the homework they were assigned. We have less stress on our shoulders and we are more prepared for college. Also, being a current athlete at Legend, I don't have time for homework. I practice every day and when I get home I just want to sleep. I would rather get done the amount of homework that I get in four classes than the amount of homework that I get in seven. Lastly, I was very excited to be apart of all the classes I signed up for next year. I will be very sad if I have to drop two because I am sure they are wonderful.
Having the block schedule was easy to do and gives low levels of stress. it helps a lot durning band season as I attend at Legend than at Cherry Creek High school were it was 8 classes per day. it is better to have a block schedule than any other thing
I agree that we should keep the block schedule. It not only gives students two days to do our work and gives us longer time in class during one session. This is also hurting me personally because I had to choose between either dropping a class that I really wanted to take or dropping my only off period. So in short, I will not have an off period if this change takes place.