This year a consultant is visiting to look at our current academic calendar, as well as our schedule. This consultant and Bolles will be looking at possibilities for a different structure to the day for students.
Some of the different possibilities include 90 to 120 minute classes, with rotating schedules. It would change the whole outlook that students have on school, as well as possibly changing the curriculum for each subject.
This change in schedule, if it happens, could be good for Bolles. A student in New York, Taylor Schulte, said, “I like it because it gives the teachers and the students more time to work on understanding the concept and topic at hand. It also helps the day go by faster because you have less subjects per day.”
A change to block scheduling would allow for students to have more time in class, enabling a higher level of comprehension and possibly improving grades overall. If this change happens it would allow for lessons to be continuous for long periods of time, and permit students to have more than one night to do homework assignments, giving more time to understand the material.
Many Bolles students oppose the idea of change. Matthew Malayapa said, “I prefer the current system and I don’t think it would be very popular among most students.”
Another student, William Wild, said “I do not like the idea of switching to a block schedule.”
Bolles junior Wyatt Cogan said, “I believe that changing the schedule to a block schedule is going to take away part of what makes Bolles, Bolles. The block schedule is just something that will take a well-balanced and simple system and needlessly complicate everything.”
Changing the schedule will have a significant effect on everything at The Bolles School, even changing core parts of Bolles such as the curriculum Isabella Smith, a graduating senior, said, “I prefer the kind of scheduling we have, it keeps a routine and keeps everything in check. Sometimes with block scheduling you can get double periods and it just complicates everything.”