Course Changes

Students are expected to select courses carefully. The master schedule of courses in the high school is determined by student’s course requests. Once the student has made his/her initial course selections, he/she should not consider requesting changes unless absolutely necessary.

Semester Long Course Changes:

• No elective changes will be made within the first 5 school days of each semester, unless there is an error on the student’s schedule. An error would consist of a course on your schedule that was not selected as a first choice or alternate course during course selection, or if you are missing a class.
• After the first 5 school days, students will have 5 additional school days to potentially make elective changes if there is space and availability to do so.
• After 10 school days, if an elective course change occurs, a W will appear as a final grade.

Full Year Course Changes:

• No changes will be made within the first 5 school days, unless there is an error on the student’s schedule.
• Course Change Forms (available in the Guidance Office) must be completed and submitted to the Assistant Principal by mid-point in Term 1, day 23. No record of the original course will appear on the transcript.
• After day 23, a final grade of W (withdraw) will appear on a student’s transcript next to any dropped year long course.
• After day 23, the grade in the withdrawn course will be the grade reflected for the term.
• There must, however, be room in the new course for the student. If there is no room in the new course, the student must stay in the original course until the end of the first semester (Terms 1 + 2). At the end of the first semester, every effort will be made to investigate alternative courses.

Important information about dropping a course:

• If a student drops a course at any time during the school year, s/he cannot take a make-up summer course for credit. Instead, the student must take an original credit summer school course (120 hours). The opportunity to take a make-up course is reserved only for students who complete the course during the school year.
• Changing courses is carefully monitored and only occurs when a student experiences serious difficulty in a course in spite of a consistent and concerted effort on the part of the student to succeed. Attendance at extra help, attendance at math lab or writing center (if applicable), consistency in completing homework assignments, and peer tutoring represent evidence of consistent and concerted effort on the part of the student to succeed in the class.