Nicole Park, Executive Editor
Anya Shah, News Reporter
August 30, 2014
A, B, C is no longer as easy as 1,2,3. Because there are no longer anymore early release Thursdays like last year (when students were released from school at 2:00pm every Thursday), and more minimum days are being added to the schedule. With this new addition comes a new schedule for these days: A and B days.
When it is a minimum day, school ends at 12:10pm, so all the classes will be shorter. Instead of cutting into those teachers’ classes, certain minimum days will only have two periods or “A days.” The following or previous day, which will be a full school day, will have four periods, a “B day,” to balance out the classes. Although this gives teachers more time in their classes than they would normally have on minimum days, students are not very pleased with this new change.
“ I don’t really like this new A and B schedule and I think it’s pretty confusing,” says 8th grader, Lauren Bensmiller. Seventh grader, Jenee Anekwe, agrees, “Why can’t we just have the Early Release Thursdays like last year? In elementary school, we had minimum days on Fridays and the whole school liked it.”
At the end of the year, we will still have had just as many hours of school as the previous years.
