It is difficult to keep up in class on its own, but when tasks start to pile up, it makes it even harder to learn. Kids often need to attend tutorials for upcoming tests or makeup tasks, but after-school practices and club meetings take up the time slots for those tutorials. The flexibility of Flex Time also provides other benefits. Allowing the students to relieve themselves of stress-inducing assignments by getting them done and out of the way eases the load of responsibilities from school that weighs students down. However, Flex Time gives students a sufficient amount of time to get their tasks off the daily to-do list and unwind. All of these factors prevent high school students from taking a break and instead make their lives increasingly unhealthy and unhappy. Each class is jam-packed with tasks, and there is homework, club activities, tournaments, and much more that students must attend to. Even a regular day at school can be tense. The days when there are numerous projects due, assignments that need to be completed, and tests that need to be studied for. Fridays are ‘club/interest group’ days where students can have some fun by participating in activities that interest them.Įvery student has faced those rough days where nothing seems to go right. Mondays through Thursdays are ‘academic flex’ days where students can finish homework, study for upcoming tests or quizzes, or just relax and take time for themselves during their otherwise chaotic day. Students can access Flex Time Manager through their student Google account and can sign up anytime until the start of school at 9:05 a.m. Using an easy-to-access system online called the Flex Time Manager, students can browse upcoming activities, see how many spots are left in each classroom, and learn more about different events during Flex Time. They can work individually in their assigned classroom, attend other teachers’ Flex Time classes, or join in fun activities. Put in place this year, the new school policy called Flex Time will help solve this issue by giving kids a way to get their work done and take care of themselves during the school week.įlex Time is a 40-minute period carved out after first block where students have many options on how to spend their time. This is especially true at Westwood, where students’ stress becomes a particularly prominent problem as they strive to achieve excellence in both their academics and their extracurricular activities. I’m so stressed out.” Quizzes, tests, projects, extracurriculars - the list goes on for the endless papers that students work on throughout the day, and it becomes hard to balance. Shawkin Kabir, Dreamcatcher Poetry & Prose Editor
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