Over the years during Harlan Community High School's time, the passing period lengths have changed multiple times. Being 3, 4 and 5 minutes at different times. During Mr. Brun’s first couple of years at Harlan the passing period was 3 minutes long. The school then had a testing period where they had either 3 minute long passing periods with 2, 15 minute breaks throughout the day. Or they could have 5 minute passing periods with no breaks. The teachers and students voted on the 5 minute passing periods. It then got changed to 4 minutes. And then finally it has been 3 minutes for the past two years.
Some pros of longer passing periods would be people could finally have enough time to go to the bathroom and fill up water bottles. If a student ever needed help on homework, instead of staying after class to talk with a teacher. Which would result in students being tardy to their next class. They could talk to a teacher before class because of the extra minutes. The halls would also be less crowded as students would leave classes at different times. But some pros of shorter passing periods is we get out earlier. During the time when the school had 5 minute passing periods the school day was from 8:15 to 3:30.
Now some cons of both; longer passing periods result in longer days. Students also have more time to mess around and get in trouble with teachers. Some cons for shorter passing periods are students have no time to go to the bathrooms and fill up their water bottles. Also having classes on opposite sides of the school is a struggle. It’s hard to get to the next class in just 3 minutes, and students are counted tardy if they're late.
If you could choose how long the passing periods were, how long would you say(1-10 minutes)?
Would you have longer passing periods but a longer day or a shorter day with shorter passing periods?
Do you agree or disagree with the time the passing periods are currently?
Mr. Bruns
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I think that they should be 5 minutes. This would give us enough time to go to the bathroom before the next class. I think the passing period time is okay right now but I think that they should add time so we can get ourselves reset before the next class. I would like to see the passing periods move up to 5 minutes.
Reseting before the next class is a good mindset to be in. If you did really bad on a test you just took and then take that bad attitude with you, you're day won't get any better. So allowing ourselves to reset and not stress out about getting to class on top of the stress of just being a student is nice. So I agree that we should add a couple of minutes onto the time they are currently.
If I could choose the passing period time id to keep it at 3 minutes. I do not think that we have enough time right now but we also can go to class and then use the bathroom once class starts. I don't like wasting time. Therefore long passing periods would annoy me. I like having them short and getting out of school earlier. Instead of having like 10 minutes and staying till 4.
I would not like to waste time as well. I think that some people would abuse having longer passing periods. They could also result in more people getting in trouble during the passing periods. Or even talk with friends and lose track of time this would give them more tardies and more punishments.
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