It’s an everyday thing — six classes, five times a week, nine months a year, and 180 days of getting an education. But how much time is really needed to learn what X equals?

For the next school year and beyond, a new schedule will be in place. After narrowing down a variety of schedule options, teachers had to choose between a 1-6 schedule with 27 minimum days over the course of the school year, or a modified block similar to the current schedule.

What won the vote was the 1-6 schedule with 27 minimum days, many of which will be used for teacher collaboration days.

“More than two-thirds of the teachers thought the 1-6 schedule would be enough,” Andre Phillips said.

With that being the case, it seems as if the teachers who voted for a different schedule aren’t very happy. With math having to start doing split test days, P.E changing their schedule to work around the mile run, and science needing to find different ways to do their labs, one would question why the 1-6 schedule was chosen.

“We get a new schedule almost every year,” Rosslyn Halekakis said. “This is going to be more of a challenge, but it could be done.”

Having to add an extra five minutes to each class, students would be released around 2:14. What frightens students the most is the idea of having homework every day.

“We gave the teachers the option to talk to their students and survey them,” Phillips said. “But they didn’t.”

You will get a different answer depending on which student you ask. Not every student is going to care about the lack of time for labs or the inconvenient testing schedules. For sophomore Blaine Beckwith, school is much more than just hanging with friends.

“I don’t like the idea of 1-6 schedule, because it’s going to be hard to learn more in such little time,” Beckwith said.

Beckwith went on to say that he would prefer the block schedule with a minimum day rather than the 1-6.
“Teachers are just going to have to keep their instruction tight and not treat 59 minutes as 117 minutes,” Phillips said.