We are looking into block scheduling for the 1997-98 school year. I am worried about the effects of this on our high school band program. Please e-mail me any information on the effects of block scheduling on band and any statistics concerning the impact before block scheduling and after block scheduling. Please let us know your experiences with these issues if you are currently on the 4X4 block. Thanks, Leigh Evans Excepted from Gary Hall's Masters Paper on the effects of the four period day on the performing arts.
Time is the culprit.
Music enrollments have held steady in schools with seven or more periods in the school day but have dropped off in schools with six or fewer periods, according to the results of a 1987 survey of M.E.N.C. members. The school day should include at least seven or eight periods. I am a college mathematics instructor. My greatest concern is the academic preparation of my students. I do not believe that students will learn as much mathematics in 18 weeks as they would in 36 weeks.