Class Period In High School

Do you remember how long your class periods were when you were in high school? It was more than likely a class period over an hour long. In the past, the classes with more time helped the students and teachers by having the time to make the content well informed. Today at Wayne County High School we only have 55-minute class periods. This probably doesn’t seem like much of a problem to a lot of students, but in my opinion it is a problem. Wayne County High School has seven class periods a day unless the student has a job and can co-op. High school students should not have seven class periods every day because it limits the time the students have to learn each subject, it is not required for a high school diploma, and it would be simple to change …show more content…
Removing certain classes will give the teachers more time to teach the long content classes. Some of the bigger courses require more content than others such as, Algebra one and two, English one through four, and all the Science courses that are required. I have been in a rushed class before and it did not help when I had to take the end of course exam. When I took the end of course exam there were a lot of problems that I didn’t know the answer to because of the limited time we had. Maybe if we had more time we could have done activities to learn the content better. The end of course exam is an important exam that requires students to know a lot of content that cannot be taught in 55-minute class periods. Not knowing content because we rush is the reason why we are not high in the ranking for best Kentucky schools. On the School Digger website, it said that Wayne County High School was ranked 147 out of 296 (Kentucky School Rankings). Going and looking at the number one school on that website it said DuPont Manual High School. I went to the DuPont High School website and looked up their class schedule requirements for next year to see if they had seven class periods a day with three electives like we do here at Wayne County. The information I found about electives was one elective freshman year, two electives sophomore year, two electives junior year, and then as many as you want senior year because they are pretty much done with the core classes (DuPont Manual High School). That information shows that they do not have as many electives as we do every year. I understand having seniors take a lot of electives because really they should already be done with all their courses except English four because that is the only one that requires four credits. Another opinion I have is that I don 't believe students should have to be at school taking those electives