For the 2022-2023 school year onward, LHS is planning to switch back to block scheduling after about two years of running on period schedules. 

I've had some thoughts on this for quite some time now and after speaking with fellow students, I believed it to be necessary to address this. Most people (aside from most teachers) agree period scheduling is better for them and their learning.

Humans are creatures of habit, meaning the majority of us rely on routine in order to do our best. With period schedules, you're going to all your classes every day (with maybe one class as an exception.) Therefore, you're going over the material for the same subject every day. However, with block schedules, the majority of your classes are changing way more often. This being said, it is more difficult to remember the material considering students are operating on different schedules constantly. This would be harder for current freshmen and sophomores as well, after running their first year(s) of in-person school with period schedules. 

It is especially more difficult for, say, neurodivergent students who rely on routine to properly function. With period schedules as I said earlier on, all your classes are the same every day with maybe one exception. There's a lot less changing every day versus block scheduling, where you need to memorize schedules for A, B, C, and D-days. A school week is five days, at the end, there is always the loose day that determines how the next week will be set up (this isn't including things such as snow days or breaks.) There is close to no consistency. I can speak from experience since I functioned on a block schedule my freshman year. For me personally, it was much more stressful and chaotic. 

Adding on to neurodivergent students, It is more difficult for (the majority of) students with attention deficit disorders, such as myself, it is more difficult to focus in an hour-plus long class versus in a 30-minute class. As a matter of fact, we could probably say this on the basis of the majority of students, neurotypical and neurodivergent alike. 

In the end, everyone would benefit from staying on period scheduling rather than switching over to block in the long run. Overall, grades would improve due to students being more engaged in classes.