By no means is this decision indicative of some sort of school-wide resistance to change. The majority of people surveyed (I believe) seem to want to try this new schedule. Now, you include yourself in your reference to members of the Uni community, so I can only assume that you are a student or otherwise a member. Dr. Epperson's email to the Uni parents and students (or even, *gasp*, the article we are commenting on here...), explains that it was his decision, not a product of resistance by Uni students or faculty. There would certainly be a lot of difficulty in finding a seventh class for 50 students, most of whom are upperclassmen that might have different choices than what would now be available. I applaud Dr. Epperson for electing not to pass these problems on to Dr. Walkington, and for sending the message that this new schedule should not be put in to place simply to say we tried something. Once we have had an extra year to study how issues like the 300-minute rule and longer lunch periods would be handled, this schedule can be implemented in a way that would allow all students and teachers to form opinions based on the schedule itself, not the problems involved because it was implemented with too little planning
By no means is this decision
By no means is this decision indicative of some sort of school-wide resistance to change. The majority of people surveyed (I believe) seem to want to try this new schedule. Now, you include yourself in your reference to members of the Uni community, so I can only assume that you are a student or otherwise a member. Dr. Epperson's email to the Uni parents and students (or even, *gasp*, the article we are commenting on here...), explains that it was his decision, not a product of resistance by Uni students or faculty. There would certainly be a lot of difficulty in finding a seventh class for 50 students, most of whom are upperclassmen that might have different choices than what would now be available. I applaud Dr. Epperson for electing not to pass these problems on to Dr. Walkington, and for sending the message that this new schedule should not be put in to place simply to say we tried something. Once we have had an extra year to study how issues like the 300-minute rule and longer lunch periods would be handled, this schedule can be implemented in a way that would allow all students and teachers to form opinions based on the schedule itself, not the problems involved because it was implemented with too little planning