ABSTRACT
A variety of issues are unaddressed by the alternate day schedules which were presented in Chapter 2:
Teachers still must work with 100 to 180 different students the entire school year.
As many as five or six different preparations may still be assigned to teachers.
Grades and records must be kept for 100 to 180 students all year.
Students continue to be responsible for six to seven different subjects all year and the homework and tests connected with those subjects.
Students failing a course must continue attending class the entire year, and they have no opportunity to retake a course until summer school.
Students have no additional opportunities for acceleration compared to single-period daily schedules.
Some critics argue that alternate day plans disrupt the continuity of instruction, especially in such subjects as foreign languages, selected music classes, and mathematics.
