Courses Experience Change

Karissa Munger, staff

SBHS is always changing. In fact, next year some of the students will be experiencing a modification in their schedules, depending on their grade levels. Many of the current courses offered will change from 90-minute block classes to 45-minute periods.

The alteration will take some adjustment, but students say it can be beneficial to both students and staff.

“In my opinion,” Autumn Adams (9) said, “I think it will be a bigger change that will definitely take some adjusting. I think the change will be for the schools benefit, as well as the students.”

“My opinion on the changes of block classes to period classes is that I won’t really mind it. I don’t think it will affect me very much,” McKenzie Krcil (10) said. “I actually like split classes because you’re not in that class for too long.”

“I think freshmen would enjoy it because the change from middle school to highschool would be more beneficial, and not as a big transition,” Brook Konst (12) said.

“Making the move to a different class format has pros and cons, and depending on the course, those adaptations can be a great benefit overall for learners,” journalism instructor Tere Froelich said. “I am actually looking forward to having the levels of journalism split into more than one class because it will allow me more time to work with each level. However, it will also mean that the upper level discourse won’t be as predominant in Journalism level I classes.”

“It’s better for a foreign language to be a year long class for retention and it makes the class a little bit easier, so I think it will be a good change especially for Spanish in particular,” instructor Jennifer Mallett said.

There are also concerns from students about the revised class schedule.

“In my opinion, it is very irrelevant because that means the days will feel longer and there will be more workload on us students,” Evan Smith (9) said.

“I think when you’re in middle school, it would be great because of attention span issues, but in high school when you actually want to have 100 percent attention in that class, it will be harder to comprehend when you will have to attend six more classes during the day,” Kelly Colburn (12) said.

For more information about the schedule modifications, please contact school administrators Principal Pete Wilson and Assistant Principal Chad Hedderman or talk with Student Services personnel, Dadra Avery, Pam Vinson and Shawn Koontz.