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The period before 1st period. 1st period being the first "official" period of the day, which now can't begin before 8:30a. Originally, it began life as the be
by codefreeordie 4y ago
The period before 1st period.
1st period being the first "official" period of the day, which now can't begin before 8:30a.
Originally, it began life as the before-school time for athletics and other organized extra-curriculars, but once it existed, it became a full-fledged period of instruction, as high-achieving students needed to cram ever more "elective" courses in order to compete for the top university slots.
Even 25 years ago when I was in high school, there was talk of creating a double-zero for the athletics, the marching band, and the extra-curriculars, so that elite students could "still afford" to do them.
In my district, it didn't happen (With zero starting at 7:08a, double-zero would have been 6:03a, if I'm remembering class length correctly). One of the reasons why it didn't happen is that since there is no "honors athletics" which can be graded on the 5-point scale, elite students couldn't afford the grade points to take them anyway.
- Enginerrrd 4y agoThis is a really cynical take. I took zero period just because I wanted to take additional subjects. I also didn't want to waste a period on P.E. so I did various varsoty sports after school since it counted for a semester each. I took jazz band in 0 period. And I never even bothered applying to college senior year of high school.
- toast0 4y agoAt my school, band was 1st period, orchestra was 2nd period, and the band teacher was away for the rest of the day teaching band and orchestra at elementary schools. Jazz band was either in 0 period or didn't exist. A lot of the organized sports would do practice as a 0 period (for us, we needed 4 semesters of PE, and marching band or organized sport could count for 2 of those; so I took up cymbals for the marching band, cause ugh PE)