“I believe that some students would not benefit from the extra period. We hardly have enough time for each class as it is, and subtracting five minutes would not help matters. I feel as if putting the period in the day takes away from ‘normal’ classes, and it is likely that students would cut if they did not feel interested in the material.”

—Freshman Anna Jaffe

“Starting a similar program in the middle schools might also help, not so much for the incoming freshmen and current high school students, but for the kids coming into middle school when the program is implemented. It would seem like it’s a part of school for them, so it wouldn’t be a change in high school.”

—Sophomore Nikolaj Sorensen

“It really depends on the teacher. Last year in Mr. O’Connell’s class, we spent almost a week just talking about emotional and social issues every day for the whole period, but I think the whole class really enjoyed it and took away a positive message–if you had given people the option to not attend, I’m sure almost everyone would have still come to class for it. But there are some classes in which emotional discussions cannot occur in a way that everybody would feel involved and interested. Perhaps if students could choose which class they would like to go to for this period it would be more effective.”

—Junior Yasmin Aghajan

“I think a lot of people would cut if it was during tutorial because students only attend tutorial when they actually need help in the curriculum. Implementing this extra time into B period would be better for the students because they are already familiar with the assembly schedule and having this extra period once in a while wouldn’t be that big of a change.”

—Senior Charlie Wang