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Student scheduling
Starting near the end of the school year students will have the opportunity to complete their schedules online for the fall 2010 school year.
The counselors are still involved in making the schedules, but the students have more control in what their schedules look like.
Science teacher Eric Hall is new to the process.
“It’s good students start the process,” Hall said. “…It’s still good someone is looking over it.”
Students will be going to the library with their English class sometime next month to make their schedule for next year.
Sophomore Kailie Liggett thinks that students will benefit from creating their schedules.
“Counselors tend to screw some things up and the students know what they need and want,” Liggett said.
However Ligget realizes that due to classroom sizes and availability some students won’t be able to take the classes they need. Another issue is that certain students may not sign up in time to get a class they want.
As an advisory teacher Hall has to look back on the schedules and explains that creating a schedule could be challenging for some students.
“Be careful picking needed classes,” Hall said.
With the new responsibilities of creating a schedule, Liggett believes there’ll be students who take advantage of it by picking classes that they know their friends picked.
On the other hand Hall thinks that the new system will allow students to be accountable for their choices.
“(Students will have) more ownership for what (they) do for (their) choice,” Hall said.