With the last three days of school being half days, all CTE Center classes will be virtual Wednesday through Friday to accommodate the new schedule.
“Our teachers have a google sheet where they’ve placed their plans and their links, so I think we have a good plan of action,” CTE Center Principal Dianna Manuel said “We just don’t know exactly how that’s going to go at the home campuses. I worry a little bit about the logistics of all of that, but we are prepared to have whoever shows up in the virtual classes.”
With many home campuses being 15 or more minutes away from the CTE Center, these virtual classes will allow for less time to be wasted on transportation, especially when class periods are so short.
“It was a district decision,” Manuel said. “With the edited schedule and the school day ending at 1:00, there just wouldn’t have been enough time for transportation. By the time students got here, they wouldn’t have time for class, they’d just have to turn around and go right back.”
Despite the early dismissal, students will attend all four classes on Wednesday and Thursday in accordance with A/B scheduling, with each class lasting 45 minutes. On Friday, students will attend all eight classes, spending about 25 minutes in each.
Regardless of practicality, this change feels like a waste of time for many students, including sophomore Vanessa Park.
“It doesn’t really make sense, because no teacher wants to sit on Zoom with a bunch of kids and do nothing,” sophomore Vanessa Park said. “All of our grades were done last week, so we won’t even be doing classwork. The only good thing is we don’t have to sit on the bus.”
Similar to virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers are concerned about attendance during the Teams meetings.
“I worry a lot of students won’t show up,” Manuel said. “It’s a lot of work trying to coordinate all of that with 12 different high schools. I’m not sure how things will work with technology at the home campuses.”
