Students Polled on Scheduling Issue

Based on the principle that most people, regardless of age, cannot effectively concentrate for an unbroken period of more than a couple of hours at most, the School's schedule endeavors never to have more than two class periods meet back-to-back during the day. So the two morning periods are followed by a change of pace in the form of 25-minute advisory/tutorial/clubs periods. The next 55-minute class is followed by lunch. After lunch three classes meet in succession -- and in order to keep that long stretch from becoming unproductive, the schedule inserts a 10-minute break (rather than the usual 5-minute passing period) before the last period of the day.

Students have voiced some dissatisfaction with that last break, wondering what it is for and why it keeps them from going home five minutes sooner, so newly elected president Noah Levenson initiated an official questionnaire, administered during advisory period with teachers' opinions included, in order accurately to gauge opinion on the matter. The administration is currently considering whether and how the results might be incorporated into school policy.