What is the schedule like for a CRNA?

Changing school schedule types?

• This question is asking for your opinion. I notice that this section has plenty of teachers in it. I'm mostly looking for answers from them, but students and parents can offer their opinion as well. I am about to enter my senior year of high school. Because of budget cuts my school system has decided that switching schedule types for high school might save money. For some background, until 2010 schools chose which schedule to run on for themselves. Most went for a 7-period, year-long schedule with 45 minute classes, but some went for a 4-period semester ("block") schedule with 90 minute classes. In 2010 the school system "combined" these schedules to create a unified one. Baisiclly most classes still ran on a year-long schedule, but SOME classes went on a block schedule. It was possible to have some yar long and some block classes. Which classes ran on block was random, and not all classes of a particular subject might be on one schedule. (For example, there was year-long AND block chemistry). Students didn't pick which schedule they were on either. It was pretty confusing. Now, to save money, the school system has come up with a new schedule. 45-minute, year-long classes are eliminated. This is a hybrid of A-B day and Block schedules. Baisiclly the way it will work is that MOST classes will run on a semester-long block, with the exception of AP and arts classes, which will run on an alternating A-day B-day type schedule. Either way, all classes are now 90 minutes long. How this saves money is a mystery to me, but I think it has something to do with reducing the amount of "wasted" (in the system's view) planning time teachers have. It is my view, and the view of many students, having all 90 minute classes wouldn't encourage learning. I would be apt to becoming extremely bored. And there is also the issues of knowledge absorbiton between years. Say for example, I take Spanish II. I take it on the block schedule my first semester. Then, when I try to take Spanish III the next year, it is put on the second semester of my schedule. It would be unlikely that I would remember much Spanish because of that huge gap. The same would be true of math or English I would imagine. But I'm just a student, not any sort of expert on the matter. What is the opinion of the teachers, and others, on Y!A Thanks, Johnny

• Answer:

  I've never attended a school that used the block system, but I've had friends that did, and they all consistently reported that the teachers would spend half the 90-minute block actually teaching, and then the students would sit and socialize or whatever for the other half of the block. Ostensibly they were supposed to be using the remaining 45 minutes to do their homework or something, but nobody actually did. You're right about the gaps; unless the school could somehow enforce giving extra homework in the subjects that students aren't taking that semester, teachers would have to do far too much review and catch-up work to cover much new material, even with 90 minutes a day. It's also not fair to the students that had a math (for instance) block the previous semester and therefore don't need as much review as the students that went a semester without a math class.