Personally, I think that part of the problem is the switch to the semester system. From watching my sons and their friends, I think that the boys find it FAR harder to sit still and pay attention to ONE subject for well over an hour, than do many of the girls. The old system, where we had 8 subjects daily plus lunch, each period being on the other of 40 minutes, gave everyone a break every 40 minutes to stretch their legs as they headed to their next class. Roughly doubling the class length to 80 minutes means that everyone has to sit still for that long, which is a long time.
Also, there are other problems with the semester system. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have kids take one year math in the fall semester and then not have math again for a year, was an idiot. Same for science, for languages, for instrumental music, just to name a few off the top of my head. To be honest, I can think of very few benefits to the semester system - flexibility in scheduling being about the only one! */rant*
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Date: 2006-01-30 06:35 pm (UTC)Also, there are other problems with the semester system. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have kids take one year math in the fall semester and then not have math again for a year, was an idiot. Same for science, for languages, for instrumental music, just to name a few off the top of my head. To be honest, I can think of very few benefits to the semester system - flexibility in scheduling being about the only one! */rant*