When I was in high school, we had a five day schedule, days numbered 1 through 5. However, those didn’t correspond to Monday - Friday. Day 1 was whatever day school started, continuing to the next day every school day thereafter. So if Friday ends up being a day 3, Monday would be day 4. The justification for this was that because Fridays and Mondays were often holidays when other days were not, and each class only met four times per week, this system would allow equal distribution of types of days over the length of the year. Therefore, each class would meet the same number of times, instead of having Monday and Friday classes get shafted.
Jeez, if I’d had to sit through math for 110 minutes at a time, I’d have punctured my jugular with my little pointy metal compass.
You guys make me feel so old, I feel like I should be shaking my cane at you. Back in my day, at my HS, we had 6 classes plus a study hall (so 7 periods a day), unless you were an honors student and then they “let” you take a seventh class. (Which was fine, actually, study hall was a total boring waste of time.) So a typical schedule would be English, math, science, history, gym, an “elective” (like typing or home ec. or art or something) and a study hall. Four periods, then lunch, then three periods. In at 8:20, out at 3:10. JUST LIKE GOD INTENDED!!!
And it would still be that way, if it wasn’t for you meddlin’ kids.