School Redesign: Obstacles and Research

Basically, the biggest threat to a plan to create a "Free Period" class is time. There seems to be no time to fit in everything, unless there is some kind of sacrifice. What kind of sacrifice, you may ask? There is some debate. Electives could be removed from the schedule, although, that would be protested widely, by students. Another option would be to cut classes short, and add all this cut time to that class. However, teachers, and to a lesser extent, students, would probably find this to be extreme. However, these are the only two viable options and one would have to be chosen. Probably, the first would be the best option, since there would be less opposition, and there would still be time to cover other classes. To solve, though, this discontent, the electives could be moved to after school.
As for research, I found that this has not been tried in any other schools, and information was very hard to find. However, I did research lateral thinking itself, and I found that it actually requires very little time to teach. Exercises are easy, and so I'm sure that even those that did not have missing work could still be working on something during this time. That's why I changed the concept from a lateral thinking class for a free period. As for this free period, itself, I did research on it, and free periods brings better grades.