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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry to hear that's been your experience.  For what it's worth, we are also at a school that has been hovering in the 50-60% low income range for the past couple of years, and our experience was completely different. My DC's counselor bent over backward to help figure out a schedule for senior year (last year - just graduated).

I do agree that having limited options for higher-level classes can be a problem.  My kid had to enroll in one class at another school because it wasn't offered at ours - but the counselor was great about working that out, including making sure that the classes directly before and after were ok with her leaving early or arriving late on some days due to the transportation time between schools. So taking classes at two schools was a major pain - but the counselor was great at helping to sort out out, and checking in periodically during the year to make sure it was going ok.

It sounds like the real issue is that there aren't enough kids at your school taking the higher-level classes to fill enough different class periods to provide sufficient options for deconflicting the preferred schedule. That does suck. That didn't end up happening to my DC (just had the one class that wasn't offered at all, but otherwise was able to take everything desired), but I do know a couple of friends who had two choose between two classes because they were both only offered in the same single period. [/quote]

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