Six-day schedules have multiple benefits, one of the biggest being the ability to work around the Mondays we don’t have school on. However,  because Lexington High School doesn’t take advantage of these benefits, I believe a six day schedule produces unnecessary disorder. 

One disadvantage that arises from the six-day schedule is that the monthly half-days fall on the same schedule days, resulting in the same classes being cut short every time. Of course, this is partially because of flaws in the half-day schedule, but the six-day schedule system provides no compensation for half-days. 

Another aspect the six-day schedule strangely does not compensate for is snow days and unexpected school cancellations. When there is a snow day, rather than shifting the schedule forward, that day is cut completely out of the schedule. This throws off a lot of classes because many of them end up behind schedule, while others remain on their normal course. Considering how a six-day schedule is flexible enough to correct this issue, its misuse only emphasizes its needlessness.

In addition, planning around six-day schedules is annoying for students. When I am considering my availability to go to an event, or anything that might disrupt my regular schedule, I can’t just say, “Oh, that’s on a Monday, I usually don’t have a lot of work on Mondays.” Instead, I have to go through the process of figuring out exactly what schedule day will fall on that exact Monday several weeks in the future. The same goes for planning extracurriculars; you can’t sign up for extracurriculars on specific days based on your workload on a given day, because it changes every week. You might have three classes one Monday and six on another Monday. 

In my opinion, the best solution to this would be to switch to a normal, Monday through Friday schedule. But what about all the Monday holidays? That’s an easy fix; days can be built into the schedule throughout the year, where the Monday schedule is on a Tuesday, or the Friday schedule is on a Wednesday, ensuring that classes are given an equal number of meeting times. 

Six-day schedules may compensate for a lot of problems, but they just add unnecessary stress, and those problems have other, more convenient solutions.