More class, no recess: Middle school changes address failing students

Rutland Middle School students won't have recess, class times will be longer and there will be a mandatory extra help period beginning next school year. School administrators and the Rutland School Board are backing a plan that will change students' schedules at the start of the 2010-11 school year — one that includes eight-minute-longer classes and students taking core classes such as English, math and science at different times during the school week. The intent is to improve student performance and make the most of teacher instruction, according to John Beerworth, a physical education teacher at the school who is part of a committee that studied the prospect of a new schedule for more than a year.

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