West High tenth-graders are upset about the lack of time they have to put together a schedule for next year.
Due to the six-day weekend caused by snow days, registration information for the 2009-2010 school year was issued to both the ninth-graders and tenth-graders at West High last Thursday. The ninth-graders have until next week to figure out class schedules, but the tenth-graders are meeting with their counselors this week to determine the courses they will take next year. This year, counselors are also asking for signatures from social studies, science, math, English, and foreign language teachers to insure that students are choosing correct classes. This is to help lighten the load of schedule changes at the beginning of next year.
“We only got five days to think about it and only three days to get teacher’s signatures,” said Lizzy Laikhter ’11. “I am very upset. I haven’t really been able to think about classes. I don’t have signatures, and my meeting is tomorrow.”
Laikhter ’11 also complained about the lack of information on classes. “This is a big decision. They [teachers] haven’t talked about classes, haven’t talked about anything you do in those classes.”
Students are expected to make the best choices possible in the allotted time. West High guidance counselor Kay DiLeo said, “It’s unfortunate, but I don’t think the amount of time makes a difference. Nothing is final. Students decide and have the opportunity to change.”
By Laura Stamnes
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i completely agree, these choices are very important and rushing them can be a very bad idea. I would have appriciated more time with my schedule
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying. Another thing that sucked was that in English we had to listen to the teachers talk about their classes. Well, by that time on Tuesday, I had already talked to my counseler... so even if I had wanted to take a different English class, I had already signed up :(
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