Talk:LaurenHill Academy

This section confuses me: "Laurenhill Academy was the first school in the EMSB to use a progressive block scheduling system (4 daily periods of 75 minutes over a 9-day cycle). In recognition of this innovation, LaurenHill achieved Lead School status and was invited to join the MEQ Implementation Design Committee's Lead School Network". I went to Riverdale High School in the latter half of the 80s. It was in the PSBGM (Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal) at the time. As far as I know, most of the schools in the PSBGM were English, so when things were reshuffled to phase out the religious theme and adopt the language theme, they became the bulk of the EMSB, so presumably Riverdale - before its untimely passing - was in the same board. We had 6 daily periods of 50 minutes over a 7-day cycle. Other than numbers, this sounds like the same system (and, honestly, 50 minutes sounds more reasonable and less stressful than 75 minutes. Every day we had one class we got a break from, and there was no class "Always before/after lunch" or "Always at the end of the day", but I guess that's the "progressive"). It seems likely that the same system stayed in place until the school died. And according to this article, LaurenHill only opened 2 years later in 1992, and only joined EMSB in 1998 (I'm guessing that might be when the board was formed). 1985 to 1990 I was going to school under this system, how is 1998 (or potentially 1992) "first"? Niceguy169 (talk) 00:56, 30 March 2023 (UTC)