Maggie's Farm

I used to sit all day in high school, and it was not detrimental to my education. She admitted that she is used to standing all day (which takes some getting used to and probably was tiring when she first started teaching). Maybe the problem is the overly-long periods. We used to have six classes a day that were about an hour long each (approx.). I think the problem now is that they have decided at many school districts that you need to extend classes to more than 1.5 hours in order to get in 'more instruction.'

Very dumb idea. I have been told by my children that the end of the period is usually used for homework and 'asking questions,' and if you have finished all your homework and have 'nothing to do,' you are allowed to take out your cell phone and text.

This tells me time is being wasted in these overly long class periods. Go back to shorter periods, all the same subjects every day. Kids will be moving between classes every hour and will be more alert.

May I also point out that I know plenty of people who are 'movers' and don't like to sit still. And there are also more sedentary-type people who don't like a lot of moving around. I am guessing this teacher is a 'mover' who likes to be on the go.