“I don’t like how there’s no warning bell. At this point, I’d rather have five minutes or 10 minutes. It [the seven minute passing period] messes up the schedule, and it makes it weird.”

— Allison Vazquez, 11th grade

“I would rather it be five minutes because this new time schedule is really confusing. It’s really hard to get to class on time when you keep looking at the time and wondering what time you’re going to be leaving.”

— Alvaro Luna, 9th grade

“I would say at first I was definitely skeptical of it, but honestly, I think it’s just going to get people to class faster now, and it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.”

— Nova Westin, 10th grade

“I don’t like the new passing period. I have friends whose teachers still keep them in, even past the bell, so there are high chances of them being late. It’s also hard to know when your classes end. A lot of the time, say during a test, it’s important to be able to budget time for sections of the test so that you have some idea of how much more time you have left to complete the test. The new passing period makes this a lot harder.”

— Kreeyash Agrawal, 11th grade

“I understand wanting to make the passing periods a little bit shorter so that we can get out sooner. But in the end, we’re getting out 11 minutes sooner. And so in exchange, they’ve screwed up all the time. Now no one has any idea when class starts or stops.”

— Geneva Gadda, 12th grade

“I think seven minutes is fine, at least especially for freshmen, because we just came from five to seven. So for us, I think it’s pretty fine. I mean, sometimes it’s a little tight if you go across campus, but I think otherwise it’s pretty okay.”

— Ayaan Mittal, 9th grade