BY MCKAYLA HELM, Editor
The schedule change has taken effect this year, changing from the four-block schedule to an eight-period day. The Krier surveyed 131 Kaneland students sophomores and above to find out how returning to the middle school schedule was effecting them. Most students at Kaneland have gone a couple of years using the block schedule, so this does seem like a big change.
“I dislike how big a lot of my classes are. I also dislike how fast the classes are, making it difficult to get a lot done in class,” junior Tyler Hill said.
In the block schedule, students had an average time of an hour and twenty minutes per class with four classes a day and STEP time in the morning. The exception to that time would be third block which contained the four different lunches. Now with the eight-period schedule, students have an average of fifty minutes per period and a lunch the same length.
“I feel like the school wanted the change but didn’t prepare for it at all. There aren’t enough teachers, time or organization. It just doesn’t work,” senior Vanessa Cook said.
Although this change has allowed core classes to extend to a full year, it has also allowed more chances for homework and tests each day because there are more classes. This is a concern among some students who only had a chance of four tests in a day. There is now a possibility of up to seven classes that have tests and/or homework in them.
With the change in class time lengths per day and the classes taking up more time per year, some classes have trouble fitting in their daily projects.
“I don’t like that classes are rushed now because we have less time, especially foods classes. There is no time to bake and clean-up,” sophomore Regan Prost said.
The class times are not the only things that have changed. Students now have one minute less to travel in the hallways. There is also a new rule on bags and purses, which may add in to the factor of time efficiency. Without bags to carry books and binders in, students have to go to their locker to retrieve the necessary items for each class or just carry all of their school supplies around.
“I do not like the fact that I have to go to my locker more, and it’s hard to get to class on time,” sophomore Kassidy Reever said.
77 percent of students feel like they won’t have an easier time academically with the eight -period schedule.
“The schedule, while benefitting some classes, shortens and weakens most and is a bad change from the blocks which I feel were better,” junior Alex Speckman said.
Overall, the schedule change is something that takes some time getting used to, but it may be too sudden of a change for some students.