Teacher here. I can explain this as: at any given time only about 1/2 the class is listening to instructions. I’m guessing that 4th period is a smaller class, but they did well because the teacher could better monitor what they were doing. I’d be willing to bet that 7th period is the largest class.
Student here.
- Forgot instructions when doing practical.
- Broke cover slip under microscope
- Paid for the lens (which wasn’t broken, but who cares, it looked like it and they needed money for their parties)
Plot twist: 4th period was the teacher’s prep period. The teacher burned themself while trying to work out how to keep students from burning themselves.
Half of the students in second period probably aren’t even awake yet. I normally wasn’t awake/functional until about 3-4th period. Half the time I would sleep through second period 😂
This whiteboard all by itself could be used as data that students need to be allowed more sleep.
There is certainly a case to be made for pushing school, especially high school, later in the day. And I agree, that would be better.
However, that’s not necessarily going to fix the amount of sleep they’re going to get. No matter when you have to wake up in the morning, some are going to look at it, say “okay, I can go to sleep at X time and get exactly 8 hours of sleep” and then stay up 1-3 hours past that.
Some places already pushed it. I started at 7 and my younger brother now, a decade later, starts at 9.
Nah. Just that no one’s apt to fuck around near lunchtime.
