Free period, study hall, seminar. There’s a lot of words for it, but for Liberty students it’s “Nest Time.” A class that takes place on Thursday block days known by almost every student and well liked by a lot of them too. The question is, how will they like the new (and improved?) structure of Nest Time?
At the beginning of a student’s high school years, every student is assigned a teacher in the building for a period on their schedule labeled “9th hour” also known as Nest Time. Nest Time takes up about an hour and a half of the school day once a week on Thursday block days. A lot of students use this time to catch up on missing work, retake or take missing tests or quizzes, or have discussions with their everyday teachers. Students can do these things after a passing period about 20 minutes into the start of the class.
However, a common problem seen in Nest Time is after the passing period ends, students have to stay in the classroom they traveled to. This becomes a problem because students with missing work or who need to get help with assignments from different classes can only see the teacher that they feel is most important to see only once a week. This creates even more problems because correcting a quiz or asking a few questions doesn’t take more than a few minutes and then the student has to stay in that classroom for the rest of Nest Time when they could be going to see other teachers to get help with other issues.
Beginning this week, Liberty has been introduced to a new plan to hopefully help with this issue. Instead of one passing period to head to a class you need help in, there will now be two three minute passing periods during Nest Time. Ten minutes into Nest Time a bell for the first passing period will ring and 35 minutes later another bell will ring. This way, students will be able to go to two different classes during Nest Time instead of just one for the entire class. Students will be able to choose to stay in their regular class, go to another class after the first bell and stay there the whole time, or switch between the second bell so they can get help in more than one class. One thing that stays the same is that students will still have to be requested to the classes they travel to during this time and teachers will have to fill in the reason for their traveling.
Another adjustment for Nest time is teachers will no longer be scheduling hall passes for students to come to their Nest. The administration has brought back the spreadsheet that teachers can sign students up for.
With this new change, there are new opinions everywhere. Do students like the change or dislike it? It’s definitely one of the bigger changes as it will affect most every student at Liberty as most kids are assigned a Nest Time. More information on how students feel about the change will be presented after the change takes place this Thursday during Nest Time.
