Fall 2017 Schedules will be visible on PowerSchool Thursday,
July 20th.
Over the summer, the counseling office and Dr
Staniszweski have worked diligently on fixing incomplete schedules. Our
focus has been to ensure that every student begins the school year with a full
schedule. We would like to take this time to thank our students
and parents for being patient with us as we have made phone calls, sent
emails, and tracked down students to finalize student
schedules. We appreciate you working with us to ensure a
smooth start to the school year.
Please take a moment to look at your Fall schedules and look
for issues, the biggest of which is balance. Balance is where we hope to get an
even amount of academics across the two semesters. For example, if you
are taking four core classes this year, a balanced schedule would be one that
has two core courses in the fall and two core classes in the spring. If
you see that your schedule in the fall has too little or too many academic
courses, this is a cause for a legitimate schedule change. The other
issue you may see is there might be two classes during the same class period or
one block that is empty. This is a problem that is a legitimate schedule
change request.
The other reasons for legitimate schedule changes are as
follows:
need a specific course to graduate
failed and must repeat a specific course to graduate
earned a credit for course listed on the schedule in the
regular day, summer school, on-line, etc.
teacher recommendation for a level change
balancing (as mentioned above)
changing levels (i.e.- regular to honors)
*If your schedule change is not for one of these
legitimate reasons, please do not submit a change request form.
Please note that we do not make "change of
teacher" schedule changes. Please do not ask to switch teachers.
Also, we do not make changes to put certain classes in the
morning or afternoon. Several of our courses are full and there is not
much movement within the master schedule. Along with that requesting a
specific course for a certain period is not a request that we will give
consideration either.
Lastly, schedules are EXTREMELY tight this year. We
are not able to guarantee that we will be able to honor your legitimate
schedule change requests. We will do our best to make the changes that we
can for acceptable requests, but it may not be a possibility.
If you have a request that falls within the parameters
listed above, please come by the guidance office to complete a schedule change
request form. No emails or voice mails about schedule change requests
will be addressed, only forms will be considered. The office is
open Monday through Friday from 8-4.
