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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do kids get new schedules halfway through the year if they are continuing in the same classes? All of my high school classes were full year except for one or two. [/quote]

All HS classes are semester-long, even those that students are in for the year. So a class like Honors Bio is split into Honors Bio A first semester and Honors Bio B second semester. A student may have Honors Bio A with Mr. Smith during period 3 and then have Honors Bio B with Ms. Jones during period 5.[/quote]

Interesting. Why not just have the students stay with the same teachers and schedules all year? [/quote]

Because of electives usually. If my kids wants to take Ceramics I first semester and Ceramics II second semester, they are by definition not offered at the same time so the whole schedule moves.[/quote]

Why aren't they offered at the same time? Many kids would take both. [/quote]

NP. There may be only one ceramics teacher.

Still a stupid reason though. To disrupt the continuity of important academic classes to accommodate electives. The kids will waste the first 25% of the second semester getting used to their new teacher’s style etc. [/quote]

By the time studios kids get to junior and senior year, the majority of their classes are electives.  Some of which are half a year and others which are a full year.  So many are bound to be changing classes 2nd semester.

And for college bound students, this actually mimics what scheduling is like for them.  [/quote]

Why are the majority of their classes electives? Mist states require 4 yrs of math, English, etc. If they are going to  college, they should be taking 4 years of most other core courses like science, FL, history, etc. [/quote]

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