Schedule change requests due Friday

With the spring semester starting Jan. 18, schedule change request forms are available outside the counselors office and are due Friday.

Mady Daddario

With the spring semester starting Jan. 18, schedule change request forms are available outside the counselor’s office and are due Friday.

Brooke Colombo, Staff Reporter
January 4, 2016

Schedule change request forms for the new semester that starts in two weeks on Jan. 18 are available outside the counselor’s office and are due Friday.

Schedule change criteria

Changes are only permitted if:

  • it’s to drop an athletic or program class, like band or orchestra
  • it’s to drop an AP or Pre-AP course
  • if a student is a senior and does not have all the required courses for graduation
  • if a student doesn’t have the prerequisites for a course
  • a course credit was previously received, or a data-entry was made.

Changes are only permitted if one of several criteria (see sidebar) are met and students must have parental and teacher permission in order to change their schedule.

Students requesting to drop a class are warned that changing a schedule may impact lunches, teachers, and current class schedules, and grades from the first semester follow to the new class and will be averaged for the student’s year-end average.

New changes may not be immediate once a form is turned in as counselors have many students to accommodate.  

“The process is very lengthy,” counselor Alma Campo said. “We’re at capacity in so many classes at this point that there’s not a lot of room for movement, so it’s like working a puzzle.”