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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am really confused. How was TPMS doing 8 periods? Do they have a longer school day? Was it accomplished via block scheduling? Why can’t they keep the arts ( band/orchestra) with 7 periods? [/quote]

Block schedule for 8 periods.  4 periods on odd days and another 4 on even days.  Standard bell schedule for start/end of school.

The arts are staying.  There will be one less elective slot available to students.  Non-magnet had 3/now would have 2.  Magnet had 2 (as 1 was taken by the magnet-mandatory CS course)/now will have 1.

The higher-level music course (orchestra) tended to have a large number of magnet kids taking it.  They also tended to take a language.  With only 1 elective available, now, many may stick with language, both for skill development and because it is a HS credit course, and then have to abandon orchestra.  In addition to the loss of the ability to take both for magnet students, a concern is that the higher-level orchestra, itself, would go away (for non-magnet, too) due to the decimation.  TPMS orchestra has had a very good reputation.

Generally, the same might apply to other electives, which have been pretty robust at TPMS, but the clearer effect would be in that subject.[/quote]

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